'The Forty Martyrs'

March 2009

Design by Roy Coomber

Each light 500mm wide x 2300mm

The window depicts St Edmund Campion together with St Margaret Clitherow as the two most prominent figures, in front of a symbolic representation of the other 38 Martyrs.

St Edmund is depicted as a priest holding a book. St Margaret Clitherow, a lay woman, is shown in medieval dress of the period and holds a baby to symbolise motherhood.

The figures behind the two saints are dressed as monks and clergy of various types, denoted mainly by the colour of their habits; Carthusians, Augustines, Benedictines and a layman wearing a hat. In the background is the scaffold of Tyburn. The tracery contains Palm leaves, a symbol of Martyrdom.