Right under my nose.

Looking back through old blog posts I can see that I last popped into St Andrew's in nearby Nuthurst back in 2015. Many's the time I've gone past it since, but not felt any need to stop. However, as I was driving along that road again last week, I pulled up on a whim. As there was a gentleman sitting quietly in the pews I didn't tarry and just took a handful of photos of things I hadn't noted before. I rather liked the fluidity of this modern window when compared to the rather stiff and uninspiring Victorian ones there.

Nothing about it rang any bells and it wasn't until I took a closer look back here at GBT that I started to notice that there were figures within the streams of molten glass.

By now I was curious to find out who was the artist behind it. An online search soon gave me the name of Tom Denny and at that point the penny dropped. I have swooned over his work in Tewkesbury Abbey  https://gnatbottomedtowers.blogspot.com/2015/07/tewkesbury-abbey.html and in Gloucester Cathedral https://gnatbottomedtowers.blogspot.com/2023/04/gloucester-reimagined.html. It even reached the point his work is so recognisable that I didn't even need to check it was by him when I encountered more examples in Malvern Priory and Hereford Cathedral [see photos below]

This most recent find is an earlier example commissioned in 1994 and I think his distinctive style has developed to become more identifiable in more recent years. This is the only one in Sussex and there it was sitting right under my nose all this time in a country church in a tiny village a couple of miles away and I literally had no idea. The universe works in strange ways sometimes!

Arilx