Edith Cavell Window

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Reference WMO/302162

Address:

St Mary the Virgin

Main Road

Swardeston

NR14 8DG

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Stained glass window
Materials:
  • Glass Stained Glass
Lettering: No lettering
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A stained glass window of three lights. The centre light depicts Edith Cavell kneeling, with Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale in the canopy shaft either side of her. To the top of this light is a depiction of the Crucifixion. In the lights to the left and right are Mary and St John respectively, with angels below them. An alabaster tablet with the inscription is on the adjacent wall.
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This window was given by many friends and admirers to/ commemorate the devoted life & tragic death of Edith Louisa Cavell/ Head of the first training school for nurses in Belgium who was/ born and brought up in this parish of which her father was a vicar/ from 1863 to 1909 & who died for her country on October 12 1915/ aged 49 years being shot by order of a German court martial/ in Brussels for having rendered help to fugitive British French and Belgium soldiers. The artist who designed the window and the craftsmen who made it gave their services as their/ contribution to this memorial Anno Domini 1917

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