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"Exquisite" Church Windows

Monday, 13 January 2025 16:56

By Marion Westram

We hear how the world famous modern artist Marc Chagall came to complete the unique stained glass windows in All Saints' Tudeley.

Marc Chagall was a friend of Matisse and Picasso.

Chagall also designed the Peace Window at the United Nations in New York. 

All Saints’ in Tudeley is the only place of worship in the world to have a full set of stained-glass windows painted and designed by Chagall.

Josephine Willoughby, who's a trustee of the Chagall Windows Preservation Trust, spoke to our reporter Marion Westram.

Josephine explained that the east window at Tudeley is a memorial tribute to Sarah d'Avigdor-Goldsmid who died aged just 21 in a sailing accident off Rye. Sarah was the daughter of Sir Henry and Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid. The family then lived at the nearby Jacobean house Somerhill, which is now a school.

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