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            Staple Church has a stunning 21st century designed 3 light stained glass window in the south wall of the Nave.

The Pilgrimage Window, designed by Buffy Tucker and made by her and other craftsmen at the Cathedral Studios at Canterbury Cathedral was installed in November 2007 as a gift to the church by Mrs Burges in memory of her husband Roger Burges who was organist at St James at the time of his death in 2005 and had been involved with the music and choral singing at the church for many years. It was dedicated by the Archdeacon of Canterbury Ven Sheila Watson at a service on 9th December 2007. 

St James the Great is the Patron Saint of Pilgrims hence the theme of Pilgrimage, but the artist has chosen to depict the soul’s spiritual journey to heaven – the parallel journey to that of our bodies in pilgrimage, which she felt to be more uplifting imagery than the comparative heaviness of corporeal striving, with the figures conveying spiritual joy as the souls climb towards the light.  The naked souls journeys are intended to be perceived as weightless flight, or swimming under water; drawn inexorably towards their heavenly goal. However, the sometimes twisting body positions parallel the struggles we face in our own travels through life 

Among the souls there are butterflies, symbolising the transience and delicacy of the human condition; a tribute to God the creator.   While it celebrates the souls release and journey to heaven the window also shows the beauty of the natural world around us in this life.

The design also includes a reference to music, an important part of the human expression of devotion. Curling upwards with the souls is music by Edward Elgar from his oratorio ‘The Dream of Gerontius’; that sung by the angelic choir as Gerontius’ soul approaches heaven. 

There are also several prisms incorporated in the white part of ‘heaven’, casting rainbows into the church interior when the sun shines.

In the bottom right hand light, amongst the more struggling figures, are references to medical science with symbols of some chemical elements and the organic molecule amlodipine (Istin). Mr Burges, as a pharmaceutical scientist, was a key figure in the discovery and development of this medication for angina and high blood pressure

Taken on: May 20, 2017

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