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In Dean Woodforde's book, "Stained Glass in Somerset" (1946), he describes some colourful glass set in the St Mary Magdalene vestry window. Some saintly figures were recognisable.
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The Reverend Paul Bush, vicar of St Mary Magdalene's from 1931 to 1948, was once approached by a scrap merchant peddling his wares. As the Vicar was inspecting the cart, he noticed some fragments of coloured glass. The merchant assured him they were found in a ditch near Glastonbury.
The vicar bought them and had them made up into a window for the vicarage summerhouse. The vicarage was sold in 1956, at which time; there was no longer a summerhouse. When the new owners were digging in the garden they came across many fragments of glass where the old piggeries had been.
They decided to clean the pieces of glass and deliver them to Dean Woodforde. He declared them to be very fine examples of 13th, 14th and 19th Century glass. In the 1960s, the glass fragments were given to Mr Jasper Kettlewell, a stained glass expert who, after patient sorting, began to discern a pattern.
He was eventually commissioned to add this glass to the set in the vestry window, and eventually, the very interesting designs were placed into the chancel window. Another very fine example of restoration.
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