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English: Stained glass window in Chester Cathedral. The "St Christopher Window" (1927), St Christopher and the child Jesus, by Trena Cox, designed for the Slype (a covered passage leading off the cloister) in Chester Cathedral. "What makes this window unique is that the design is framed by a simulated wooden canopy in the style of Christopher Whall", Arts & Crafts designer. "Soon after the first world war Cox started her career. By 1923, she was practising at stained glass design. In 1924 she moved to Chester and, by the end of that

year, her first designs had been realised in glass and installed in Chester College Chapel". "(Source: https://www.buildingconservation.com/books/churches2012/files/assets/basic-html/page14.html). Latin inscription in verse: "Cristofori faciem die quacumque tueris" ... "Illa nempe die morte mala non morieris". ("On whatever day the face of Christopher thou shalt see, On that day no evil form of death shall visit thee"[1]) Heraldry: Under Christ: Azure, the Virgin with the infant Christ enthroned or on a chief gules a nest containing five chicks argent (possibly pelican chicks, theme in Christian iconography). (Possibly arms of the Prior/Abbot of St Werburh's Abbey, the original form of Chester Cathedral intil 1541. "A prior's seal, said to be 13th century in date, is a pointed oval 17/8 by 1¼ in. and depicts the Virgin seated in a niche under a trefoiled arch with the Child on her left knee. On the right is an angel holding a candle in a candlestick; the figure on the left is broken away. In the base, under a trefoiled arch, with church towers at the sides, is a half-length figure in prayer facing to the left. Legend, lombardic: . . . PRIORIS . . ." (Source:[A P Baggs, Ann J Kettle, S J Lander, A T Thacker and David Wardle, 'Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Chester', in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 3, ed. C R Elrington and B E Harris (London, 1980), pp. 132-146. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol3/pp132-146 [accessed 16 November 2020].

]))). Right, below St Christopher: Or, a signpost proper on a mount vert pointing in three ways impaling Gules, a lantern argent possibly invented heraldic representation of Christ as "the Way" and "the Light" (John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me") (John 8:12 "Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”). Top: Argent, a pile inverted gules overall a crescent counter-changed, with crest above A cubit arm erect holding in the hand a (spear ?) possibly the arms of the donor of the window. The Dacre Knot heraldic badge appears in tiny form one of the panes on the right (St Christopher), with escallop shells scattered throughout the composition.