Tomorrow Melvyn Bragg is doing a talk about the new stained glass windows that he commissioned for St Mary's. It's part of the festivities for the switching on of the Christmas lights. If you haven't seen them, yet you've missed out. They must be the best modern stained glass in the country, in the opinion of this observer. They were designed by Brian Campbell, who used to teach art at school.
The window in the picture has views of school and other recognisable buildings in Wigton. But it also rectifies a particular physics problem: it has the rainbow colours in the correct order.
The second picture here shows the older stained glass above the altar. There is also a rainbow on it. The colours are in the WRONG ORDER! And I have to look at it every week! I'd like to think that this is evidence that physics education in Wigton has improved in the last century!
