Francis Skeat

[4] He later worked for A. R. Mowbray and Co. in Oxford and for J. Wippell and Co. of Exeter; he also designed glass for the firm of Barton, Kinder and Alderson.

[6] Skeat's works employ crisply drawn figures on a largely clear glazed background, which was a popular formula in post-war stained glass.

In the City of London church of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate there is a memorial window to John Smith, the governor of Virginia and associate of Pocahontas who was buried there in 1631.

[9] The east window in the Lady Chapel of St Andrew's Church, Swavesey in Cambridgeshire, contains a 1967 Tree of Jesse by Francis Skeat.

[10] In a letter to the incumbent and the churchwardens, Skeat writes:-[11] "The window scheme of my design is intended to symbolise the descent of Our Lord from Abraham and the patriarchs as detailed in the opening chapter of St Matthew's Gospel.

The text at the bottom of the window, taken from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer version of Nicene Creed, reads:- Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.In May 1977, Skeat published "Stained Glass of St Albans Cathedral".