Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church

Burke Road, Camberwell, BOROONDARA CITY

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Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church, St. George, Ninian Comper 1955

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  • Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
  • Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Vic. War Heritage Inventory
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  • Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements

    Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements

    Martin Harrison, Victorian Stained Glass, 1980, pp.72-3; Margaret A. Hookey, St. Mark's Camberwell, the first seventy-five years, 1998, p.87.

    Memorial Window Subject

    Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Memorial Window Subject

    St. George

    Memorial Window Text

    Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Memorial Window Text

    none

    Memorial Window Inscription

    Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Memorial Window Inscription

    To the glory of God in memory of the Men of Anzac this window was given by the Boys and Girls of the Camberwell Church of England Grammar Schools 1955

    Memorial Window Description & History

    Stained Glass Window at Camberwell St. Mark's Anglican Church - Memorial Window Description & History

    The designer of St. George was the British stained glass artist, Sir John Ninian Comper (1864-1960). Comperwas born in Aberdeen and was apprenticed to the stained glass artist, Charles Eamer Kempe before training as an architect with Bodley and Garner. It is worth noting that these windows were designed when Comper was already in his nineties, having trained in the Victorian period. Although well -known in Britain for his stained glass he made few windows for Australian churches. He usually signed his work, either with his intitials- 'JNC', as he did in this example, or with a small strawberry rebus.

    The window, placed on the east wall of the Warrior's Chapel of St. George, was unveiled on 6 November 1955 by Brigadier CS Barber, MC, VD, an Old Boy of Camberwell Grammar School. The Archbishop of Melbourne, JJ Booth, dedicated the window. Sir Ninian Comper also designed another two-light war memorial window in the church, which depicted St. Peter Apostle and Edith Cavell (see separate entry).

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Vic War Heritage Inventory - Stained Glass Memorial Windows Study

    Author: Bronwyn Hughes
    Year: 2013
    Grading: Local

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