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All Saints in Daresbury is synonymous with Alice
in Wonderland as the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was
born in the parsonage at Newton-by-Daresbury on 27 January 1832.
The Daniell Chapel contains one of the best known features of All Saints',
the Lewis Carroll Memorial Window. To mark the centenary of his
birth Carroll enthusiasts from all over the world subscribed to a
memorial fund, which resulted in a gift to All Saints' of this striking
and unusual stained glass window, dedicated in 1935 |
Photograph by kind permission of John Eastwood
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Designed by Geoffrey Webb, the window depicts a Nativity scene above
which a number of symbolic panels represent various facets of the writer's
life - the wheatsheaf of Cheshire, the arms of Rugby School and Christ
Church, Oxford, and mathematical instruments symbolising his academic
career. |
"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is
what we do for others"
- Lewis Carroll
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