The chancel windows

There are five windows in the chancel, each of a single lancet with a cinquefoil roundel. The two outer ones are the original patterned ones of tinted glass made by George William Luxford in 1878. The three central ones were installed in 1886 and are the work of Alfred Octavius Hemming (1842-1907) of Cavendish Square, London. Hemming made eight windows in all at St Mary's, beginning in 1884 with a small one of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the lower band of the south transept in memory of the infant son of one of his nieces. 

From left to right, his chancel windows depict:

• The  Journey of the Magi and Mary Magdalene anointing Jesus’s feet
• The Crucifixion and Raising of Lazarus (with the Lamb of God in the roundel)
• The Resurrection and the Charge to Peter ('Feed my lambs')

The Resurrection window is inscribed: Sacred to the memory of Louisa Elliott 1877. Louisa Jane Elliott (née Dumbell), was the first wife of Sir Charles Alfred Elliott. Elliott had inherited the old St Mary’s Chapel in 1869 on the death of his brother, the Revd Julius Marshall Elliott, and transferred ownership of it to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1876. His wife died in 1877, aged 34, while the new church was being built. He and his sisters funded all three of the pictorial windows in the sanctuary and tradition says they were intended also as a memorial to his brother Julius and his father, the Revd Henry Venn Elliott.

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The Crucifixion (detail), central chancel window by A.O. Hemming, 1886.