Kettlebaston church chancel-screen

Image: © Bob Jones Taken: 15 Dec 2009

This decorative screen was designed in the early years of the twentieth century, as a replacement for the one destroyed in the sixteenth century, by the Revd. Ernest Geldart, a parish priest in Essex who had trained as an architect. It was not fully coloured until the 1950s, when Enid Chadwick of Walsingham added the figures of six English saints. From left to right, they are: St Felix, who brought Christianity into East Anglia, and died as the first bishop of Dunwich in 648; St Thomas More, who was beheaded in 1535 for his resistance to Henry VIII; St Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered in his own cathedral in 1170 for opposing Henry II; St John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, executed in 1535; St Alban, the first recorded martyr in England; and St Fursey, an Irish missionary who established the first monastery in East Anglia, at Burgh Castle, and died in 648.

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