A little excursion to a recital given on a newly restored 100-year-old Broadwood piano led me to stumble on these beautiful stained glass windows by John Piper. Well, not literally stumble on the windows of course - they are still whole. John Egerton Christmas Piper, born in 1903 and probably one of the only people to have Christmas as a middle name, was a twentieth-century artist who created some of the most glowing stained glass windows in England and some of the most vibrant opera set designs - most famously for Benjamin Britten. The vivd blues and warm oranges of the windows in an angular, grey Church made it feel rather like sitting in a kaleidoscope.
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There's a lovely Piper window in Iffley Church (Oxford) too. :-)
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