Tuesday 20 January 2009




This slideshow is of photographs of All Saints which were taken by Matthew Tyler, a professional photographer, who has kindly allowed us to display them free of charge.
There are also some photographs to your left which you can download as Word documents.

For the slideshow - As it moves quite fast it is possible by clicking your mouse on the pause button when you hover over the base of the slideshow to pause the slideshow on any particular photograph. Once you have paused the slideshow you can either restart it by pressing the middle button or move on or back in the sequence at your own pace by clicking the right pointing or left pointing arrows.

Details of Matthew Tyler's work can be found at this website

http://www.matttylerphotography.com/

and you can email him at

mtphotography@live.co.uk

Matthew is available to discuss any photographic projects you may be interested in, including photography for weddings which may take place at All Saints church or elsewhere. Do email him if you are interested.
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Stained Glass Windows:
Some of the photographs are of stained glass windows and the below text may be of interest to you as you look at them:

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
STAINED GLASS



Name:
Wynn Ellis Gift window. 1865

Location:
In South aisle wall near to the South aisle Chapel.

Comments:
This window was a gift from Wynn Ellis.
The window is in two panels and has roundels that depict occasions
from the life of Jesus


Inscription at the bottom of the window
“To the Glory of God. The Gift of Wynn Ellis of
Tankerton. AD 1875”











ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
STAINED GLASS

Name:
Wynn Ellis Memorial Window. 1884

Location:
In East end of the Chancel, above the High Altar.

Comments:
This Memorial to Wynn Ellis is dated 1884. Wynn Ellis died in 1875.

At the top centre of the window is the Star of David.

In the next line down there are six Angels, each holding a Crown.

The main part of the window is in three panels, each one depicting a scene from the Crucifixion of Jesus.

The bottom of each panel tells the story of the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

There is an inscription across all three panels.
“O Lord God---Lamb of God--- Son of the Father
That takes away--- The Sins of the World--- Have Mercy on us.”

The Memorial Tablet for this window is affixed to the South Aisle wall near the Chapel beneath the Memorial Tablet to Sibert Saunders.



ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
STAINED GLASS

Name:
Saunders Memorial window. 1905

Location:
In the South aisle wall near to the South Aisle Chapel.

Comments:
This window was erected by Parishioners in recognition of friendship and work by Sibert Saunders, who was Lay Reader and Churchwarden for All Saints’ church for 36 years.

This window is single pane and has the figure of Saint Augustine, who was sent to England by Pope Gregory 1 and arrived in
AD 597.
St Augustine met King Ethelbert, who was the Anglo-Saxon king of Kent 560-616. Ethelbert was married to Bertha, a Francish Princess who was a Christian; A condition of her marriage was to continue practising her faith. King Ethelbert himself became a Christian 2nd June 597.
St Augustine is shown holding a Bishop’s Crook in his left hand, whilst his right hand is supporting a Bible upon which there is depicted a cathedral- type building.
Inscription at the bottom of the window. “St Augustine”

At the top of the window on the left is the shield logo of the Diocese of Canterbury. On the right side is the Throne of St Augustine that is still used whenever a new Archbishop of Canterbury is enthroned.
The Throne is at Canterbury Cathedral.

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
STAINED GLASS

Name:
War Memorial (1939-1945) Window

Location:
In North aisle wall near to the Lady Chapel.

Comments:
This window was placed in position in 1950, and should be read in conjunction with the Memorial Tablet that is on the wall to the right of the window. This records those who gave their lives during the Second World War.
The window has two panels with a top centre panel.
The emblems of the Royal Navy, Army and the Royal Airforce are to be seen.
The left hand panel shows Jesus carrying his cross to the crucifixion and the right hand panel shows people at prayer.
In the right hand panel All Saints’ church can be seen in the background.

Inscription at the bottom of the window
“Greater Love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends”







ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
STAINED GLASS

Name:
Browning Memorial Window 1925

Location:
In the North aisle wall, near to the North Porch entrance into the church.
Comments:
This window has two main panes with a top central, and two smaller panes. The top central pane depicts an oyster dredger – a reminder of the industry for which Whitstable is famous. The two smaller panes depict an oyster in the left and a star fish in the right.
The right hand main pane depicts St Anne teaching the Blessed Virgin Mary to read and the left hand pane depicts St Christopher representing the hermit who kept the Chapel in St Anne’s Hermitage in the ‘North Woods’ of the great forest of Blean.
The Hermit himself can be seen depicted in the top left part of the left hand pane, holding a lamp, with his dog beside him.
St Anne
In Nazareth there lived a rich couple, Joachim and Hanna. They were childless. When on a feast day Joachim presented himself to offer sacrifice in the temple he was repulsed by a certain Ruben, under the pretext that men without offspring were unworthy to be admitted. Whereupon Joachim, bowed down with grief, did not return home but went into the mountains to make his plaint to God in solitude. When Hannah learned of this she cried to the Lord to take away from her the curse of sterility, promising to dedicate her child to the service of God. Their prayers were heard; an angel came to Hannah and said: “Hannah, the Lord has looked upon thy tears; thou shalt conceive and give birth and the fruit of thy womb shall be blessed by the entire world”. The angel made the same promise to Joachim, who returned to his wife. Hannah gave birth to a daughter whom she called Miriam (Mary).
Mary was the mother of Jesus.
St Christopher
Christopher was a Canaanite 18 feet tall with a fearsome face. He went to serve the King who was the greatest. One day he saw the King cross himself at the mention of the devil. He departed to look for the devil and found one who declared himself to be the devil .So Christopher decided to serve him but when he saw his new master avoid a wayside cross and found out that the devil feared Christ, he left him and enquired from people where to find Christ. He met a hermit who suggested he could serve Christ by assisting people to cross a dangerous river where many were perishing in the attempt. This he promised to do. A little child asked him to take him across the river. During the crossing the river became swollen and the child seemed very heavy, so much so that Christopher could scarcely carry him. When he finally reached the other side he said to the child “You have put me in the greatest danger. I do not think the whole world could have been as heavy on my shoulders as you were.” The child replied: “you had on your shoulders not the whole world but him who made it. I am Christ your King, whom you are serving by this work.” The child vanished.
Inscription at the bottom of the window
“To the Glory of God the gift of Harry Browning, in memory of his parents Thomas George & Catherine Lucy Browning and of his sister Kate and the husband William Weeks Akherst.”

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
STAINED GLASS

Name:
Hayward Memorial 1905


Location:
In South Aisle wall, being the second window from the West end of the aisle.

Comments:
The window has a central pane at the top, which depicts an Angel. The two main panes show Jesus talking to a group of people who could have come from different walks of life.
There are two children standing near to Jesus and he has placed his right hand on the head of the child next to him.

Inscription at the bottom of the window
“To the Glory of God and in memory of Alice wife of John William Hayward of this Parish, Surgeon, and their children Helen, Frances Sanken, and Henry Stewart. This window is dedicated by
W H 1908”









ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
STAINED GLASS

Name:
Bryant Memorial 1938

Location:
In South aisle wall near to the West wall of the aisle.
Comments:
The window has a top central pane that shows a Cross within a gold Crown. The two main panes depict St Dorothea and St Margaret and are related to the names of Dorothea Margaret Bryant to whom the memorial was erected.
St Dorothea
She suffered during the persecution of Diocletian, 6 February 311 AD, at Caesarea in Cappadocia. She was tried, tortured and sentenced to death. On her way to the place of execution the pagan lawyer Theophilus said to her in mockery “Bride of Christ, send me some fruits from your bridegroom’s garden”. Before she was executed she sent him, by a six year old boy, her headdress which was found to be filled with a heavenly fragrance of roses and fruits. Theophilus at once confessed himself a Christian, was put on the rack, and suffered death. This is the oldest version of the legend.
Dorothea is represented with an Angel and a wreath of flowers. She is regarded as the patroness of gardeners. She has been venerated since the seventh century.
St Margaret of England
A Cistercian nun. She was born in Hungary to an English mother who was related to St Thomas of Canterbury, England. She went with her mother on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and lived a life of austerity and penance in Bethlehem. Her mother died there and Margaret made pilgrimages to Montserrat in Spain, and to Puy in France. There she entered the Cistercian convent at Suave-Benite. When she died her tomb became a shrine of pilgrimage.
Inscription at the bottom of the window
“To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Dorothea Margaret Bryant who died at Whitstable 20th June 1936 aged 32. This window was erected 1938”

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
STAINED GLASS

Name:
Robinson Memorial 1914


Location:
In the East wall of the Lady Chapel in the North aisle

Comments:
This window has two main panes that are depicting people at prayer to the Virgin Mother of Mary.
There is an inscription within the right hand pane just beneath the mother and child:
“To the Glory of God in thankfulness for mothers love and in memory of Sarah Ann Robinson of this Parish who died Sept. 12th 1912. Erected by her son”

Inscription at the bottom of the window
“Blessed art thou-among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus”

There is a modern statue of the Madonna and Child placed in front of this window.