Blue Mountains History Journal Issue 2
Blue Mountains History Journal Issue 2
Blue Mountains History Journal Issue 2
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<strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Mountains</strong> <strong>History</strong> <strong>Journal</strong> 2; 2011<br />
But, in 1913, Miss Phillips, herself, made major donations to St. Luke’s church of a baptismal font<br />
(Figure 12D), and a stained glass window with a crown (Figure 13C; also see Woolston 1999, p.37)<br />
which is behind, and on the southern side of, the communion table.<br />
A Miss Board is reputed to have donated the matching stained glass window with a cross which is<br />
inscribed “Presented by a visitor to Medlow” (Figure 13A); it is behind and on the northern side of the<br />
communion table. It may be significant that the stained glass west window of St. Aidan’s, Blackheath,<br />
was given by Mrs. Board (Hodgkinson 1984 p.28).<br />
(photos – Mrs. Elsa Courts)<br />
Figure 13. Windows and Donors<br />
A North window B East window C South window<br />
Miss Board Miss Strafford Miss H.P. Phillips<br />
Also in 1913, Miss Strafford, a Medlow parishioner, gave the stained glass window that is behind the<br />
communion table on the eastern side of the church (Figure 13B); the image is a copy of the painting<br />
of Christ knocking at the door:<br />
“... , representing Holman Hunt’s famous picture, ‘The Light of the World’ and faithfully rendered<br />
by Messrs. J. Ashuin (sic) and Son, of Sydney, ...” (Anonymous 1913i).<br />
[The manufacturer of the central window was actually John Ashwin & Co., Stained Glass Works, 31<br />
Dixon Street, Sydney (Sands 1913, pp.45, 894).]<br />
It was donated by Miss Strafford in memory of her brother-in-law,Rev. Richard James Read, and her<br />
sister, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Read, who joined the congregation of St. Luke’s in 1903 when they retired<br />
to Medlow.<br />
Two of these donors were not exactly identified but were probably:<br />
1. Miss Lucy Board (? 1929) of 36 Gordon St, Paddington (Sands 1913, p.937) who had a connection<br />
with the area because her brother was Edgar Board, an Alderman of Blackheath Municipal Council<br />
(December 1925 – May 1937) and Mayor (April 1926 – December 1929), an affluent Draper owning<br />
many properties in Blackheath.<br />
and<br />
2. Miss Wilhelmina H.M.A.S. Strafford (1849-1918) of Allowah, 46 Redan Street, Mosman (Sands<br />
1913, pp.546 & 1572) whose sister (1843-1907) had retired to Medlow. From at least 1914, Wilhelmina<br />
owned Lots 27/28 and part Lot 29 of DP 2873 on which was the house Kanimbla in Belgravia Street,<br />
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