While there are many depictions of the Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, only two Last Judgment windows appear among the whole of Morris & Company's production of stained glass: the other is the magnificent west window of Saint Philip s, Birmingham (now Birmingham Cathedral; fig. 20), designed by Burne-Jones for his hometown in 1896. The present spectacular design was made for the east window of Saint Michael and Saint Mary Magdalene at Easthampstead, Berkshire, as a memorial to the 5th Marquis of Downshire, commissioned by his widow in 1874 (fig. 12). The church has four other windows by Morris & Company, including the unique Story of Saint Maurice (1883) and an Adoration of the Magi (1885), both tall, elaborate com- positions crowded with figures in a manner recalling the Lyndhurst designs of 1863 (see cat. no. 21). Burne-Jones charged the exceptional price of £120 for these cartoons, although this also included a circular composition showing Christ in Judgment (Dies Domini) for the tracery above, surrounded by six angels. 1 A preliminary pen-and-ink design (now in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts, London) is dated June 18, 1874, although the cartoons them- selves are referred to in his account book between April and June 1875. The inscription giving the date 1874 was probably added retrospectively, when the cartoons were coloured (in 1880, according to Bell); they were shown at the winter exhibition of the Grosvenor Gallery in 1881, Burne-Jones having sent noth- ing to the summer exhibition that year. In the window the center light is shorter than the other two, and Saint Michael's banner and wings have been extended to fill the space within the original trefoil top; the outer lights have been simply squared off. All traces of the decorative back- ground that appears in the glass — of stars above and stylized clouds below — have been smoothed away. Burne-Jones used mostly delicate colours, with subtle gradations of tone, quite different from those of the stained glass, where Saint Michael is in silver armor with golden wings and the angels are in white with red wings. 1. Sewter 1974-75, vol. 2, pp. 66-67 (the window is reproduced in vol. 1, pi. 510). The cartoon for Dies Domini was also worked up independent- ly, and another version in pastel is at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.
These cartoons for stained glass were executed by Morris & Co for the church of St Michael and St Mary Magdalene, Easthampstead, Berkshire, for the chancel east window. They comprise of three lights crowned by a rose window of Dies Domini (cartoon now lost). The cartoons were drawn in 1874, and the window executed in 1876. The triptych cartoon was returned to Burne-Jones's studio, to be coloured in wax crayon sometime in 1880, the colouring bearing little resemblance to the final window. The rose window for the Easthampstead Church depicts 'Christ in Judgment', the design for which was executed in oil and named 'Dies Domini' (1873-74, destroyed; 1875 pastel version in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight). This cartoon also appears in the Morris & Co Windows Book (1940P604.1), as numbers 247 (left), 203 (middle), and 248 (right). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Last_Judgement_by_E._Burne-Jones_(design,_1874,_Birmingham).jpg