Mucklestone - St Mary - interior from SW 2015-06-21

The church, with the exception of the W tower, was rebuilt in 1883 to the designs of Lynam and Rickman of Stoke-on-Trent on the same plan as its Georgian predecessor. It was equipped throughout with stained glass by C. E. Kempe, dating from c.1890 to 1905, mostly at the expense of the Chetwode family of nearby Oakley Park. Pevsner referred to the interior being in the "constant twilight" of Kempe's glass, although large trees in the churchyard to the south also contribute to the gloom. The N aisle has dormer windows, one of them just visible in this shot, and I wonder if these were installed as an afterthought, once it was seen how dark the interior was after the installation of the glass. List description for church: list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1377621 .