St Andrew's Church, Plymouth

The principal building of Plymouth blue-sky limestone and Dartmoor granite corner buttressing in the Perpendicular style, took place between 1430 and 1490.

The organ, the largest west of Bristol, was built by Rushworth and Dreaper to a design by George Harry Moreton, William Lloyd Webber and O. H. Peasgood.

Amid the smoking ruins a headmistress nailed over the door a wooden sign saying simply Resurgam (Latin for I shall rise again),[1] indicating the wartime spirit, a gesture repeated at other devastated European churches.

That entrance to St Andrew's is still referred to as the "Resurgam" door and a carved granite plaque is now permanently fixed there.

With all of the stained glass present in the church blown out during the blitz, in 1957, artist John Piper was commissioned to provide designs for a new window for the west tower.

On the back of this success, Piper and Reyntiens would be commissioned to provide another five windows for the church between 1963 and 1968, which together constitute one of the most comprehensive cycles of the artists' work anywhere.

The Resurgam Door