The simple inscription below the window reads: “To the glory of God and in memory of Thomas Webb J.P. who died December 14th 1869. This window was erected by his children.”

Thomas Webb, a Stourbridge glassmaker, retired to Cradley in 1863 and died at Fernhill which faces the Malvern Hills. Son of a farmer, he founded the company Thomas Webb and Sons, makers of fine English glass, becoming known as the “Crystal King of England”. The company was noted for the high quality of its cameo etched glass and went on to win the Grand Prix for glass at the Paris International Exhibition of 1878, when it was described as “the best makers of Crystal Glass in England, and consequently in the world.” Thomas is buried with his wife at Holy Trinity Church Worsley, near Stourbridge.

The East Window includes details of the accounts of Jesus’ Resurrection found in the gospel narratives, including the women who went early on Easter Day to anoint the body, and the sleeping soldiers who were sent to guard the tomb – the latter dressed in a style more suited to mediaeval crusaders than to Roman soldiers of the first century.

For more detail of the windows in Cradley church take the “Church Window Tour”.