FDA-A.844-2018
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.844-2018
Object type
Identification
Title
Fragments of stained glass windows, formerly in College Chapel
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
'On the eve of Founder’s Day, 1940, a delayed-action bomb exploded in the foundations of the north end of Upper School. The blast shattered most of the chapel glass, except the west window over the organ and the south and south-west windows of the ante-chapel.'
[Source: Richard Arthur Austen Leigh et al., A Guide to Eton College (Eton: Eton College, 2008), p.24]
[Source: Richard Arthur Austen Leigh et al., A Guide to Eton College (Eton: Eton College, 2008), p.24]
Description
Content (note)
Four pieces of stained glass mounted and framed together; a fragment of a man's face (Christ?); a fragment of a crown; a blue fragment; a red fragment
Production
Person
O'Connor, Michael, 1801 - 1867 (Artist)
Date
c.1850
History and association
Associated object
FDA-A.2567-2024 (related object)
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of P. M. Springman; by whom presented to Eton College in 1977
