A NEWLY-RESTORED window at Worcester Cathedral has been unveiled to worshippers and visitors after internal scaffolding, which has been up at the west window for the last year, was taken down.
The magnificent colours of the newly restored Great West Window stained glass including the sun, stars, creatures, animals and Adam and Eve depicting ‘The Creation’, can now be seen again in all its splendid glory.
There is however still some work that the Cathedral stonemasons need to do on the outside of the west window, so the external scaffolding at the west end of the Cathedral will come down during the first week in June.
In celebration of the end of this work there will be a Festival Evensong at 4 pm on Sunday, June 10 when the newly-restored Great West Window will be blessed, and thanksgiving offered for the completion of all the projects funded by the English Cathedral’s First World War repair fund, from which Worcester has received nearly £900,000.
This service will become an annual occasion to acknowledge our many donors and benefactors, past and present, of whom King Henry III in 1218 was a notable and very generous example.
Dean of Worcester Cathedral, the Rev Dr Peter Atkinson said “We give thanks to our donors and benefactors, who give not only money, but time, effort, experience, ideas, and prayers. These are the things that sustain the life of the Cathedral, today, no less than 800 years ago.”
