Stained Glass Windows
in the Peak District

Window Details 

This Derbyshire village is famous for its heroic isolation in the face of the great plague of 1665, when the scourge was believed to have been carried in a parcel of cloth sent from London to the village tailor.

The local Rector decided that the plague should not spread from there and the whole village was quarantined, with the resultant death of many of the inhabitants. This richly coloured narrative window by Alfred Fisher illustrates the major events in this historic saga and, with the village and Church, has become a major tourist focal point, the window being a useful tool to tell the story to many thousands of visitors each year.

There is also a  memorial window to Thomas Gregory of Eyam View (d1907), 1911. by Geoffrey Fuller Webb (1879-1954), who was the nephew of the architect Sir Aston Webb and the elder brother of Christopher Rahere Webb (1886-1966), also a stained glass artist. Geoffrey trained at Westminster School of Art before working for Charles Eamer Kempe and in partnership with Herbert Bryans for a short time. In 1914 he established his own studio in East Grinstead, Sussex. Webb's signature was a spider's web which he would incorporate into the design of his windows, often including the date.

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