Rotherham, St Bede's RC Church

Title: 'The Forty Martyrs'

Date: 2009

Design by: Roy W. Coomber

Size of each light: 500mm wide x 2300mm

Description: The window depicts St Edmund Campion together with St Margaret Clitherow as the two most prominent figures, in front of a symbolic representation of the other 38 Martyrs.

St Edmund is depicted as a priest holding a book. St Margaret Clitherow, a lay woman, is shown in medieval dress of the period and holds a baby to symbolise motherhood.

The figures behind the two saints are dressed as monks and clergy of various types, denoted mainly by the colour of their habits; Carthusians, Augustines, Benedictines and a layman wearing a hat. In the background is the scaffold of Tyburn. The tracery contains Palm leaves, a symbol of Martyrdom.