Stained Glass Windows
in the Peak District

Window Detail

Due to its great size and magnificent architecture, the parish church of St John the Baptist in the village of Tideswell is known as the ‘Cathedral of the Peak’.  

It is described in Randall Rawlins’ Survey of the Parish Churches and Chapels in the County of Derby as ‘without exception, the most perfect and beautiful specimen of pointed architecture to be found in the county - or perhaps in any other parish church of its size in the entire kingdom’. 

The Tree of Jesse east window is by Heaton, Butler and Bayne of Nottingham and dates from 1875.

The west window is a Te Deum by Hardman and Powell dating from 1907. In the centre is John the Baptist; it is a memorial to Elizabeth Sarah Fletcher and Mary Chandler who were mothers of the vicar, Rev. J.M.J. Fletcher, and his wife. A new window was inserted in 1996 as a memorial to William Newton (1750–1830), the Minstrel of the Peak. This window is by Alfred Fisher of Chapel Studio.

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https://tideswellphotos.co.uk/Hidden-Gems-HOME/Stained-Glass/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_the_Baptist,_Tideswell

https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/derbyshire/23152009.village-church-tideswell-known-cathedral-peak/

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