The design was used for the centre panel in a three light window in the South aisle of All Saints, Selsley, Gloucestershire in 1862, built from designs by G.F. Bodley under the patronage of the Marling family of Stanley Hall nearby. The building was done mostly by local craftsmen; Bodley himself commissioned the glass from the Morris firm – the first order for stained glass which they received. According to J.R. Holliday, the idea of using the glass to create a band of rich colour round the whole church was inspired by the windows of Merton College Chapel, Oxford. The plan and general arrangement, as well as the pattern work and certain of the subject cartoons, were the work of Philip Webb. It remained the only complete scheme of glazing for a church, designed and executed all at the same period, and as such is an outstandingly important building as an example of the Firm’s early work.
The panels – St Paul preaching, centre, and his audience, left and right lights – are set in a band about half way up the lights, with patterned square quarries of glass above and below; in the tracery, top, a roundel with an angel holding cymbals close together (also William Morris) surrounded by 6 smaller circles with patternwork, and above the left light a roundel with pelican on Nest (Philip Webb 255a) and above right light, Agnus Dei (Philip Webb 248a).
The cartoons for the groups of listeners in the left and right lights also in the Gallery’s collection respectively A507a and b.
The design was not used elsewhere. For illustration of the window, see Sewter, op. cit., pl. 34.
