Ceri Richards: All Souls and All Saints windows
Title: All Souls and All Saints windows
Artist: Ceri Richards (1903-1971, British)
Location: Gibbs Nave, Derby Cathedral (C of E)
Date: 1964
Two windows installed in the Gibbs nave of the Cathedral. All Saints is the east window of South aisle and All Souls the east window of the North aisle. The windows also inspired the designs for three stoles by Leonard Childs.
Ceri Richards (1903–1971, British) grew up in a household where music and poetry played a central role. This early experience was to influence his work throughout his career. He created bodies of work inspired by the poetry of Dylan Thomas as well as later in life a series of paintings of sunken cathedrals based upon the compositions of Debussy. His style evolved with the times, and he experimented with Surrealism, Cubism and abstraction.
Richards was a prizewinner at the 1962 Venice Biennale.
Further Information
Medium: Stained glass
Permanent display
See Richard’s windows on the Ecclesiart map here.
Commissioner: Ron Beddoes, Provost of Derby Cathedral
Nominated by: Geoff Robson
Other artworks in churches by Ceri Richards: The Deposition, 1958, at St Mary’s Swansea; Windows, tabernacle and reredos, 1966, at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
For further comment on the stained glass see Visit Stained Glass, which is an online showcase for some of Britain’s finest stained glass windows.