The West Window

The West Window is the second one in that position. John Platt gave the window in memory of his brother James. It faded, and eventually after John’s death, it was decided that it would be better replaced. The children of John Platt commissioned a famous Belgian artist to make the replacement. The inscriptions declare that the window was put in by John Platt and his children in memory of James, but in fact John was dead by then. The subject of the window is the healing ministry of Christ. The woman with the issue of blood and blind Bartimaeus are in the two centre lights. In the other two panels we can see St Thomas, our patron, and the Church’s great missionary St Paul.