Comments on: Walter Crane’s Windows In Clapton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/26/walter-cranes-windows-in-clapton/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: sue Jackson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/26/walter-cranes-windows-in-clapton/#comment-1523067 Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:18:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197102#comment-1523067 Would love to visit the church but apart from its Sunday services it would seem to be closed most of the time. Anyone any idea of how to visit to see the Crane windows – I haven’t had any response from the registered phone number.

]]> By: anarchowalker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/26/walter-cranes-windows-in-clapton/#comment-1522490 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:31:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197102#comment-1522490 Huge Crane fan, so for me, this is a wonderful post. Will have to visit next time I`m out that way.

]]> By: gkbowood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/26/walter-cranes-windows-in-clapton/#comment-1522484 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:33:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197102#comment-1522484 Despite the Art Journal’s critique siting sin and shame as female, they look neutral in gender in Sin’s aspect and unknown gender in Shame’s; so bully to Walter Crane! Gorgeous windows in design and execution. Glorious that they have been saved from destruction in all this time. Grateful to you for sharing their history with us.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/26/walter-cranes-windows-in-clapton/#comment-1522461 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:20:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197102#comment-1522461 Nature and Art triumphs. Apart from all the other historical back stories here, I am enthralled by Crane’s depictions of the natural world, and his customary treatment of the human/idealized body.
Forgive me if I skip the “blood-stained dart” dialog, and just enjoy the radiant beauty of these panels. Impossible to have a favorite, although the corn and poppies combination was stunning.
Dare I say, methinks that Crane found his true specialty with stained glass. Powerful, churning,
lyrical images.

Thank you, GA.

]]> By: Jennifer Newbold https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/26/walter-cranes-windows-in-clapton/#comment-1522458 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:43:37 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197102#comment-1522458 What a disturbing dichotomy created in the minds of men. The Greek word ‘agape’ is meant to connote selfless love. I see strange beauty here, but very little love. What is the word, when you twist something to suit your purposes…? Perhaps they should have been the Church of the Shameless Sophists. Oppression disguised as sanctification is merely wickedness.

A very edifying post, G.A.!

]]> By: Christine Swan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/26/walter-cranes-windows-in-clapton/#comment-1522443 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:33:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197102#comment-1522443 Goodness me what depressing prospects! I adore Walter Crane illustrations and the botanical stained glass is magnificent but, doom, gloom, despair and inequality are definitely not sentiments that I identify with. The original owners sound like a bit of a sect. I’ve never heard of them before so will do some research. The Burne-Jones windows in Birmingham Cathedral are currently being restored but, I am sure they will be magnificent when completed.

]]> By: David Souden https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/26/walter-cranes-windows-in-clapton/#comment-1522438 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:48:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=197102#comment-1522438 Down leafy Somerset lanes, you come across the village of Spaxton, the home of Agapemone. It is an extraordinary and somewhat disquieting ensemble, including the Abode of Love in which Prince deflowered a virgin on the altar in front of his admiring followers. These were mainly single women of means, some of whom he ‘married’. Arts & Crafts sensibility, as in Clapton, meets cultism.

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