Touch of glass

SPECIALIST glaziers fitted the final two pieces of stained glass into the West Window at Holy Trinity Church, Ossett, yesterday, after months of painstaking restoration work.
By The Newsroom
Published 25th Jan 2012, 06:00 BST

The restoration of the West Window, which was funded by the local Whitaker family back in the 1870s, and depicts events leading up to the Resurrection has been made possible by a community grant of £59,490 from WREN.

Vicar, Paul Maybury, said yesterday: “This marks the completion of the next significant stage in our programme of repair and restoration.”

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It is part of a bigger regeneration vision for the Grade II church which sits beside the M1 and whose spire is one of the tallest in Yorkshire at 226ft. Work has been continuing for ten years to transform the building with work such as mood lighting, a flexible seating area and a state of the art heating system.

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