Stained Glass Window at Creswick St. John's Anglican Church
Napier Street, Creswick, HEPBURN SHIRE
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Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements
Stained Glass Window at Creswick St. John's Anglican Church - Memorial Window References & Acknowledgements
AWM Roll of Honour; Record of Service (Petty Officers and Men), Navy records A6770/3, National Archives of Australia; Letterbooks 1/988, 1/1000 NGA Research Collection, Canberra ACT. Folios 146 and 147, Montgomery ledger William Montgomery Collection MS15414, State Library of Victoria.
Stained Glass Window at Creswick St. John's Anglican Church - Memorial Window Subject
Light of the World
Stained Glass Window at Creswick St. John's Anglican Church - Memorial Window Text
Lead kindly light lead Thou me on
Stained Glass Window at Creswick St. John's Anglican Church - Memorial Window Inscription
HMAS Sydney To the glory of God and in loving memory of Stoker Thomas Charles Joseph Berry of HMAS Sydney A tribute from his comrades He did his duty and did it well
Memorial Window Description & History
Stained Glass Window at Creswick St. John's Anglican Church - Memorial Window Description & History
Stained glass artist William Montgomery (1850-1927) reported to the Reverend FH Ingamells that he would be please to execute a window with Light of the World as its subject, up to a limit of £50, rather less than was usual for a window of that size. Because of the distance from Melbourne, he requested the vicar to ask a local man to measure up the window and to make a template. The Light of the World cartoon was based on the Holman Hunt painting of the same name, but it was necessary to severely simplify the detail to suit the narrow confines of this window. Montgomery kept the cost down by placing the figure against a backdrop of rectangular quarries, painted with a simplified cross motif. An account was issued on 8 September 1920 for £50 with an additional £1.5.0 a month later. The full amount was paid on 2 December.
Thomas Charles Joseph Berry was born on 20 October 1898, son of John Thomas and Sarah Elizabeth Berry of Lincoln Hill, Creswick, Vic. He was serving as Stoker 2nd Class on HMAS Sydney when he was accidently drowned on 6 Decmeber 1919 and was buried at sea. He was commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, England.
Heritage Study and Grading
Vic War Heritage Inventory - Stained Glass Memorial Windows Study
Author: Bronwyn Hughes
Year: 2013
Grading: Local
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CRESWICK TOWN HALL AND FORMER MUNICIPAL OFFICESVictorian Heritage Register H0576
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FORMER CRESWICK GOLD OFFICEVictorian Heritage Register H0595
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CRESWICK RAILWAY STATION COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1669
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