Charles Eamer Kempe

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Charles Eamer Kempe

Charles Eamer Kempe (June 29 1837 - April 29 1907) was a well-known Victorian stained glass

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designer.

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Charles Eamer Kempe (June 29 1837 - April 29 1907) was a well-known Victorian stained glass

Stained glass

For the Blackford Oakes novel, see Stained Glass The term stained glass can refer to the material of coloured glass or the craft of working with it....
designer. He studied for the priest

Priest

A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities....
hood at Pembroke College, Oxford

Pembroke College, Oxford

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, but it became clear that his severe stammer

Stammer

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would be an impediment to preaching. He decided that "if I was not permitted to minister in the Sanctuary I would use my talents to adorn it", and went to study architecture

Architecture

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with the firm of George Frederick Bodley

George Frederick Bodley

George Frederick Bodley was an England architect working in the Gothic revival style....
, where he learned the art of decorating church walls and ceilings. During this part of his life he was making a serious study of mediaeval stained glass, and in 1866 he opened a studio of his own in London

London

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, supplying not only stained glass to Bodley's firm but also furnishings and vestment

Vestment

Vestments are liturgy garments and articles associated primarily with the Christianity religions, especially the Latin Rite and other Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, Methodists, and Lutheran Churches....
s. By 1899 he had over fifty employees.

As a trademark

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, the firm used a golden garb or wheatsheaf, taken from Kempe's own coat of arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
. After his death, the firm was taken over by Kempe's cousin, Walter Tower, and thenceforth used a black tower above the golden garb. A lack of orders caused by the Great Depression

Great Depression

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ended the firm's life in 1934.

Kempe was a rather shy person, who never married. He had a dog called Nora. His maternal grandfather was Sir John Eamer, who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1801.

Rosalie Glynn Grylls, Lady Mander

Mander family

The Mander family has held for over 200 years a prominent position in the Midlands counties of England, both in the family business and public life....
, whose home Wightwick Manor

Wightwick Manor

Wightwick Manor is a Victorian era manor house located on Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands , England, and one of only a few surviving examples of a house built and furnished under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement....
, near Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton

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, contains many pieces of Kempe's stained glass, wrote in 1973:

Kempe's work has a unique charm; its colours shine out from jewels that cluster on the mitre
MITRE

The Mitre Corporation, officially trademarked as MITRE, is a public-interest not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts and McLean, Virginia....
s or the crowns
Crown (headgear)

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his figures wear and from their peacocks' feathers, while angel
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s playing their instruments are drawn with tender delicacy and scattered above the main windows informally but making a pattern of precision. Above all, the prevailing yellow wash is literally translucent, for it lets through the rays of the full or the setting sun...

Kempe is buried in the churchyard at St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean

St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean

St Wulfran's Church, dedicated to Wulfram of Sens, a 7th-century French archbishop, is an Anglican church in Ovingdean, a rural village now within the England city of Brighton and Hove....
.

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