Rotherham, St Bede's RC Church

Title: 'The Life of St Bede'

Date: 2011

Design by: Roy W. Coomber

Size of each window: 420mm wide x 560mm

Description: The design illustrate the four scenes from the life of St Bede.

Panel 1 - Entering the Monastery at the age of seven years, a monk welcomes him. The figure of a woman has been added to suggest someone took the boy to the Monastery, perhaps a relative or medieval charity worker.

Panel 2 - Monastic life. The monk with a book illustrates the acts of teaching and study. The other monks are praying or perhaps taking part in a Mass.

Panel 3 - St Bede, an author, scholar and historian, is shown writing with the instruments of calligraphy, a quill pen and a stylus to hold the page.

Panel 4 - St Bede lays in bed, his death imminent, surrounded by monks who are in the act of praying, reading, with one holding a censer, petitioning to God for St Bede's immortal soul.