Let there be light

Light can enhance and add an extra dimension of worship, with magical kaleidoscopic light,^[i] an enrichment of faith.^[ii] To the visually aware light may play an important part in producing a spiritual atmosphere, achieved by pools of coloured light moving and illuminating the congregation, creating a feeling of otherworldliness, especially when rays of light direct viewer's gaze. Indeed, elevated emotion can come from the direct appeal of light and windows.^[iii] This could be because it symbolically links to the concept of light emerging out of darkness. After all, Jesus is the the Son of God and is the "light of the world".^[iv] Light has an infinite and unpredictable range of effects, upon which stained glass depends for its luminescence. In Lillington, the heavy reliance on light topically links into the subject of the stained glass in the Clerestory, that of Creation.

^[i] Aidan McRae Thomson, “Lillington-Our Lady,” Warwickshire Churches (2012) para. 6, accessed Apr 9, 2019, https://warwickshireChurches.weebly.com/lillington---our-lady.html.

^[ii] Mark Angus, Modern Stained Glass in British Churches (London: Mowbray, 1984), 17.

^[iii] Lawrence Lee, The Appreciation of Stained Glass (London: Oxford University Press, 1977), 60.

^[iv] John 8:12