Trena Cox
Trena Mary Cox (1895–1980) was an English stained glass artist. She was born Emma Trina Cox on 3 March 1895, in the Lower Bebington Urban District (i.e. not Bebbington), on the Wirral Peninsula and grew up around Birkenhead.[1] She trained at the Laird School of Art. In 1924 she moved to Chester and set up her studio in Victoria Road Chester, Cheshire, either adjacent to, or within, the Kaleyard works of Williams, Gamon & Co., with whom she remained associated until the Second World War.[note 1] In about 1945, Trena Cox moved to 96 Watergate Street, Chester,[note 2] which remained her home and, at least later, her studio, until she retired in 1972 (at the age of 77) and died, on 11 February 1980[1][2] (not in 1977, as frequently quoted). Most of her works are in churches in the old counties of Cheshire and Lancashire.[1] She was a fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters.[3] The authors of the Buildings of England series comment that "her windows are usually small, her figures modest, often with small-scale detail in the quarries" (small pieces of square or diamond-shaped glass set diagonally).[4]
Until the publication of Jones (2012),[1] there was very little coherent information available about the life of Trena Cox and errors in some earlier references, concerning, for example, the year of her death, have unfortunately been perpetuated by later authors.
Works
Building | Location | Date | Subject, notes and references |
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Chester College Chapel | Chester, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1923, 1933, 1962 | A number of windows in the chapel and in its corridor.[5] |
Cloister, Chester Cathedral | Chester, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1925–27 | Eight figures in the southwest corner of the cloister.[6] |
Slype, Chester Cathedral | Chester, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1927 | Saint Christopher.[7][8] |
Church of St Mary and All Saints | Whalley, Lancashire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1928 | East window in the north chapel, depicting Saint George, Saint Nicholas, and King Arthur.[9][10] |
Trevor Church | Trevor, Wrexham, Wales Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1930 | Crucifixion.[11][12] |
St Stephen's Church | Prenton, Birkenhead, Merseyside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1932 | Several small windows.[13][14] |
St Michael's Church | Blundellsands, Merseyside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1932; 1933 | Annunciation; Saint Christopher.[15][16] |
Church of the Resurrection and All Saints | Caldy, Wirral, Merseyside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1933; 1946 | Saint George, Saint Werburgh, Saint Bridget, and Saint Martin.[17][18] |
St Michael's Church | Huyton, Merseyside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1933 | Simeon with Jesus; Mary sitting at Jesus' feet.[19][20] |
St Bartholomew's Church | Thurstaston, Wirral. Merseyside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1934; 1951 | Two windows.[21] |
St Werburgh's Church | Chester, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1936 | A set of eight small windows in the narthex.[22][23] |
Holy Trinity Church | Lower Beeding, West Sussex Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1936 | Good Shepherd.[24][25][26] |
St Michael's Church | Shotwick, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1938 | Saint Michael.[27] |
Chapel of St Mary de Castro, Chester Castle |
Chester, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1939 | A small version of the Mother and Child.[28][29] |
St Matthew's Church | Stretton, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1939 | West window.[30] |
Holy Trinity Church | Bickerton, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
c. 1940 | [31] |
Christ Church | Crowton, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1946 | Mother and Child.[32] |
St Oswald's Church | Bidston, Birkenhead, Merseyside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1947 | Epiphany.[33][34] |
St Ambrose Church | Widnes, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1947 | A window given by German prisoners of war, depicting Saint Boniface.[35] |
St Matthew's Church | Buckley, Flintshire, Wales Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1948 | Christ in Glory as a Child in the south wall of the south aisle.[36] |
St Lawrence's Church | Stoak, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1948 | Saint Christopher and Saint George moved here from Christ Church, Chester, in 1997.[37][38] |
St James' Church | Leyland, Lancashire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1949 | Saint Michael; Saint George.[39][39][40][41] |
St John the Evangelist's Church | Norley, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1949 | The west window of the north aisle.[32][42] |
Emmanuel Church | Buckley, Flintshire, Wales Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1950; 1962 | Scenes from the birth and early life of Christ on the south wall.[43][44] |
All Saints Church | Bubwith, East Yorkshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1951 | Te Deum.[45] |
Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham | Walsingham, Norfolk Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1955 | Annunciation.[46] |
St Aiden's Church | Wheatley Hills, Doncaster, South Yorkshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1957 | Vision of St. John on Patmos.[47] |
Shrewsbury Cathedral | Shrewsbury, Shropshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1960 | A window with armorial items in the porch.[48] |
All Saints' Church | Daresbury, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
c. 1960 | Two windows.[49] |
St John the Baptist's Church | Chester, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1969 | Aethelred and the Hind, in the narthex.[50][51] |
St Mary Magdalen's Church | Tallern Green, Wrexham, Wales Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1970 | An Angel Greets the Three Women at the Empty Tomb in the south wall of the nave.[52] |
Wrexham Cathedral | Wrexham, Wales Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
1970 | Saint Michael and angels on the east wall of the south transept.[53] |
The Priory and Parish Church of Saint Mary (Beddgelert) | Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Undated | Virgin and Child and David on the north wall of the nave.[54] |
St Peter's Church | Chester, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Undated | On the west side of the church.[55] |
St Chad's Church | Farndon, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Undated | Three windows.[56] |
St James' Church | Ince, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Undated | Saint Francis and Saint Werburgh.[57] |
St Michael and All Angels Church | Little Leigh, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Undated | [58] |
St Stephen's Church | Moulton, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Undated | Two west windows and two in the north aisle.[59] |
Holy Trinity Church | Northwich, Cheshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Undated | Christmas scenes.[60] |
St Trillo's Chapel | Rhos-on-Sea, Conwy, Wales Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Undated | Saint Elian in the south wall.[61] |
Holy Cross Church | Woodchurch, Birkenhead, Merseyside Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Undated | A window in the north aisle.[62] |
Notes
- ↑ Cox's first known stained glass window is in the Chester College (now University) chapel and was installed in October 1924 (Minutes of the Joint Committee, Chester Training College, 15 October 1924). This window has Trena Cox's monogram on it, yet the window was contracted to Williams, Gamon & Co. (The Collegian, Vol 38, No 1, 1925).
- ↑ Cox exhibited several times in the Walker Gallery Autumn Exhibitions in Liverpool. In the exhibition catalogue for the 1923 Autumn Exhibition, her home address is given as her parents' address in Birkenhead, as it also is for her 1924 exhibit at the Royal Academy in London. However, in the 1924 Walker Gallery Autumn Exhibition catalogue her address is given as being in Chester. Trena Cox moved to 96 Watergate Street at some time around the Second World War. During the years up to and including 1939, electoral registers confirm that she was living at other addresses in Chester. However, by the time of the first electoral register after the war, in May 1945, she had moved to 96 Watergate St. However, she apparently continued using the Victoria Road studio alongside or within the Williams, Gamon & Co. works during the war and until at least 1946, with evidence including, for example, the Kelly's Directory of Cheshire, 1939 (p. 94, p. 584), the Kelly's Chester Directory of 1940 (p. 112) and Chester Area telephone directories in January – February 1945 and March 1946. This suggests that she may not have used her new home as a studio immediately. By the time of the January 1947 telephone directory, however, the only telephone number for Trena Cox is at the Watergate Street address, suggesting a break from the Victoria Road studio.
References
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