Leonard Evetts' project file relating to the glazing scheme of St Nicholas' Church, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland. Begun in 1958 and executed throughout by Leonard Evetts, the project comprised of forty-six separate donor windows. The scheme was completed with the installation of the final window in 1998 (realised posthumously).
This file contains sketches, detailed designs and commission correspondence relating to various (but not all) of the forty-six windows completed during Evetts' lifetime. The file also includes: letters from schoolchildren (housed in file 14); correspondence with Leonard Evetts' widow relating to a flower festival event which also celebrated a new stained glass window trail (housed in file 15); and a file of photographs (housed in file 16). Two large designs for windows in the clerestory nave (south side), and two large photographs of the Hall and Crotton memorial windows, are housed separately due to their size.
List of windows:
Lady Chapel, a two-light window, installed 1958-59
Three west windows, lower level, installed 1963-64
South wall window, installed 1963-64
Lady Chapel, four windows, installed 1967-68
Nave, two windows, installed 1967-68
Nave, four windows, north side lower level, installed 1971-72
Chancel window, installed 1973-4
The Norman Naizby Hall memorial window, installed 1973-74
South aisle, two windows, lower level, installed 1974-75
West window of five-lights showing Christ in Majesty and the four symbols of the Evangelists, installed 1983
Nave, sixteen Clerestory windows consisting of a series of paired lights illustrating texts from the Old Testament (North Side) and New Testament (South Side) based on the subject of Pilgrimage, installed 1984-89: four windows, installed 1985-86, six windows, installed 1986-87
Chancel, south side, two windows, installed 1988-89
Chancel, north wall, two small windows, installed 1991-92
North Transept wall, one window realised posthumously with the help of Phyl Evetts, installed 1998.