The first window shows two figures. The first is probably St Martin of Tours, seen as an example of a conscientious Christian minister in the act of giving communion. There is however no doubt about the second figure, which is St Patrick, holding a bunch of shamrock, and treading on one of the snakes he is supposed to have expelled from Ireland. This is a graceful compliment to the man in whose honour the window is installed, Henry Manders, first Vicar of St Mary’s, who was himself Irish, and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. The character of the portrait, which can be compared to photographs, suggests that the face of the saint is that of Manders, For the remaining windows, we are back in the world of martyrdom. The next window, the Bray memorial, shows St Agnes, supposed to have been martyred at Rome during the persecution of Diocletian. She is said to have refused marriage because of her devotion to Christ. She rejected the advances of a Prefect of the City of Rome, and was consigned to a brothel as punishment, but was protected from assault by angels; condemned to be burnt, her prayers quelled the flames, and she was eventually stabbed through the throat. The inscription on the window means “Jesus the Crown of Virgins”. Her companion, St Catherine of Alexandria, shown with her wheel, was martyred under the Emperor Maximian. She was beautiful, rich and learned, and is said to have vindicated the truths of Christianity against the onslaughts of a group of heathen philosophers, much to the fury of the Emperor, who ordered her to be broken on a wheel studded with spikes, though she was actually killed by beheading. The final pair of windows, the Barker memorial shows St Stephen, the first martyr, whose story is told in the Acts of the Apostles. He is joined by St Lawrence, who is with Stephen a patron of the Order of Deacons, and concerned with almsgiving. He is a figure from history, if somewhat shadowy. He was Archdeacon of Rome during the persecution of the Emperor Valerian, who when asked to produce the treasures of the Church for the emperor’s use is said to have gathered a crowd of the poor, beggars and cripples, and proclaimed them as the church’s treasures. This did not amuse the Emperor, who ordered him to be put to death: the story that he was barbequed on a gridiron is thought to be an invention, though, as in this window, he is usually shown carrying a gridiron as a symbol of his martyrdom. He died in 258.