Gents Mag 1849 part 1 p.377

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 1 p.377 through the doorway of the close oaken wainscot which separates the vestry from the south aisle. The east window of the north aisle, known as the Hulton window, from its having been put up at the cost of a gentleman of that name resident in the neighbourhood, has illustrations of the Adoration and the Transfiguration. Amid the variegated tracery which adds to the expression of this window are also noticeable the heraldic bearings and name of the generous-minded donor, by whom, together with a full, handsome silver gilt service of plate for the altar, it was offered as a further enrichment to the church. The adjoining window on the north side of the same aisle is, from the name of its donor, likewise a gentleman resident in the vicinage, called the Spedding window, and engages attention for the gracefulness of its drawing, and the chaste richness of its colouring. It is of three lights: the first is adorned with the figure of the Virgin Mary, holding her emblem, the lily, in one hand, and a bible in the other, with this text at her feet: "Ecce ex hoc beatam me vocant omnes generationes;" the second light has the Saviour of the world, bearing the sceptre and the globe, surmounted by a cross, with this sentence underneath: "Ego sum resurrectio et vita;" and in the third light is Saint John, with the eagle and a reed in his hands, and the words "Ecce filius tuus" at his feet. Beneath the figure of the Saviour is a circle, bearing on its outer rim an inscription, setting forth by whose generosity this handsome and impressive addition to the fenestral decoration of the hallowed fane was given. The sixth or remaining stained glass window, called "The Memorial Window," is the second from the east end of the south aisle. It was put up at the charge of the parishioners, as a testimonial to perpetaute their grateful appreciation of the liberality and estimable qualities of the restorer of the church; and the story its pictorial imagery tells, is by the subscribers felt to be not less truthfully applicable than worthily merited. The window is of three lights, each adorned with two subjects taken from the sacred page. Those in the first light are illustrative of the following sentences in Matthew, chap. XXV. 35: "I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink." The second light displays subjects from the same Evangelist, verses 35, 36 of the same chapter: "I was a stranger, and ye took me in; I was naked, and ye clothed me;" - and in the third light are illustrations from the same chapter and verse: "I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me." Running underneath the whole, the following text from the same inspired writer, verse 40, - "Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me," - forms a significanet and fully acknowledged enumeration of the virtues and benevolent disposition of the individual to whose honour this window was set up. Affixed on the ledge of the window beneath is a brass tablet, on which the following record is engraved:- "A Memorial Window by the Parishioners, gratefully to commemorate the munificent restoration and embellishment of this Church by James Stanger, esquire. A.D. 1845. The Rev. JAS. LYNN, Vicar. HENRY WOOD, GEORGE WILLIAMSON, Churchwardens." In the second window from the east end of the north aisle is the half-length figure of that eremite Saint Antony, with his bell and book, in ancient stained glass, the colours of which have all faded except the black and bright yellow, but leaving the outlines of the countenance and habit still clearly visible. But, rich and pleasant to behold, and wooing to high devotional feeling, as the interior is, that which crowns it with transcendent interest is the monument of the late Robert Southey, whose mind, an Argosy laden with the treasures of wisdom, and whose life, all virtue, through the long years of his residence, had knelt in lowly-minded piety and prayer within these sacred walls, the majesty of intellect, and innocence chastened by the spirit of religion, humbling itself, to quote his
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