Many Waters Cannot Quench Love

The following winners of the internationally renowned and prestigious annual Stevens Architectural Glass Competition have been announced:

PRIZE

WINNER


(Brian Thomas Memorial Prize) £1000
- Sarah Knighton

The competition was to design a window for St Mary’s Church, Southampton, to commemorate the lost crew of the Titanic, most of who came from Southampton. All entrants were asked to incorporate a quotation from the Old Testament book Song of Songs ‘Many Waters Cannot Quench Love’ in their work, together with the emblem of the White Star Line, the company that owned the ship.

Stevens Competition winner Sarah Knighton from Holywell Glass in Somerset said: ‘Winning the prize has been a big boost to my confidence and hopefully will act as a springboard for future work.’

Sarah, a graduate of University of Wales Trinity St David, works principally as a stained glass conservator- but has now clearly shown her talent for architectural glass design. Sarah also won the overall Award for Design Presentation.

Entrants were required to submit a full design on paper and to make a small sample panel of part of the window to demonstrate their craft skills and to show how the design might work in practice.

Competition judges this year were: Helen Whittaker (Chairman), Alex R, Martin Donlin and Mel Howse. All are distinguished and internationally renowned architectural glass artists. They were joined by Chartered architect Michael Weakley, representing St Mary’s Church. The panel of judges followed an anonymous process – they did not know the identities of the people whose work they were judging, until after they had come to their decision.