KHPC Fabric Team

Apologies, Blog Followers, for my tardiness in updating you on the works progress. But now that I'm back writing for you; it is indeed a beautiful day! Yesterday the sun was shining, and we were told that the glass conservators wanted to start re-installing the Teacher Memorial Window. So------start they did! Today the first lancet was replaced . Already, despite the dreich day, what light there was, hinted at the promise of the re-emergence of the full beauty of the Window. And there's more------------- A copy of the original Order of Service and Address which was used in the original Dedication in 1917 has come to light. So yet more excitement!

I think, for now, I'll let the beauty of this piece of window speak for itself.

There is a song which mentions 'on the wings of a dove', and the Dove is a symbol which has been used in Christianity for thousands of years. Amongst other things, it can represent for us, the Holy Spirit. An Artist can depict this imagery in so many ways; and just every so often, powerful art can reduce you to tears. In the Teacher Memorial Window there is such a Dove. The very glass itself, from which it was created was so obviously chosen for its shape and substance, we hadn't realised until now; that this Dove is 3-dimensional and that it seems to live and breath within the window. It is so high up and in such a very large window, that the Artist must have known that only a few people would see it in all of its glorious detail. Even in my close -up photo the texure and substance is lacking. However for all of you, who follow the Blog, --------here is that Dove,

So this is it; 2009! A year plus a day, from when the great storm damaged our roof. I now know that we can hope for the Memorial window to be re-installed by the end of this month. The Stone Masons will be back in next week finishing off the stone repairs and, next week the Fabric Team will inspect the Window (in close-up at the Studio) prior to its return. An event which we are all looking forward to. Our visitors are still coming; some to see how the repairs are going and some just to find a quiet moment with God. Whatever their reason all are welcome in this place. I've tried to keep this Blog fairly upbeat and factual throughout, and also to illustrate it with appropriate pictures. Since the New Year I've been fortunate enough to be very busy at work and so I haven't been out and about with my camera, therefore I went back into the files for inspiration and discovered that I had actually taken quite a few photos of the Teacher Memorial Window on this very day last year....