Stained Glass for the Music Room of Paddockhurst House (Ernest Heasman, 1924)

Ernest Heasman was born on February 15th, 1874 in Lindfield, Sussex, UK. He first worked as a draughtsman for Charles Kempe (stained-glass artist). He obtained a scholarship to Slade School, where he studied between 1898 and 1901. He worked for Mr Kempe for a further period and later joined the company of Herbert Bryans as head draughtsman. He eventually left to pursue his own ideas in design and painting. He lived in Harpenden for 22 years. After an illness lasting nearly 2 years, he died on July 26th,1927.

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The Music Room

Music; sacred and secular sources in bay window (details below)

One of the two 'vines' indicating the mutual influence of sacred and secular music

The Mystery Play

Plainsong - Benedict Biscop

The Mass - Wulfston

Anthem

Saint Francis

The nursery rhyme element in music:

Olde King Cole ...

...with his fiddlers three.

Youth dances to the pipes in ancient woods (Hursts)