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Bolton Percy Millennium Window
 

 

Commissioned as part of a Millennium project in the York chaplain’s own parish, Tom Denny’s inspirational stained glass window, takes as its starting point, a text from Isaiah chapter 43 verses 18-21. Through the medium of this vision of a transfigured world, the window explores the relationship of Time to Eternity and the sacramental nature of creation, and roots both into the particularities of the small rural parish of Bolton Percy. The governing idea of "waters", also relates the window to the nearby font.


Tom Denny has pioneered a new and exciting technique of acid-etching, staining and painting on glass, which creates an astonishing movement of light and colour across the surface of the window.



The overall abstraction of the conception is modified by the inclusion within that abstraction of "hidden" figurative elements which make his windows a source of personal pilgrimage for those encountering them for the first time. This is an art form that uses landscape, human and animal references, and an emotionally intense use of colour to produce an image that is profoundly spiritual in its archetypal and mythical references.

For further information contact Francis Minay, The Rectory, Bolton Percy, York, YO23 7AL.