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Large stained glass window at Buckfast Abbey

Large stained glass window at Buckfast Abbey

Although the building had been completed, there was still work to be done in the church. Here the influence of one of the younger British monks, Dom Charles Nor...
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Although the building had been completed, there was still work to be done in the church. Here the influence of one of the younger British monks, Dom Charles Norris, began to be felt. Dom Charles trained at the Royal College of Art and used his talent throughout the church throughout his long lifetime.
Beginning with stained glass, he moved on to paint the lantern tower ceiling in egg-tempera in 1939 (one of his helpers remembers hearing the news of the outbreak of war while finishing some of the gold-leaf work). In 1948 Dom Charles designed the marble pavement in the choir and laid the floor in the Lady Chapel in 1958. In 1968 Dom Charles completed his most striking embellishment of the church the huge east window in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. This employs the technique known as dalles-de-verre in which ‘tiles’ of coloured glass are chipped into shape and laid, mosaic-fashion, in a matrix of resin. Following this work, windows were made at Buckfast for many churches throughout the country.
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