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Artist and designer H.H. Escourt worked for the commercial stained glass firm Barnett Bros, the major stained glass manufacturers in Perth early in the 20th Century. He was married in 1916 to Millicent Alethea.

Escourt designed and made The Good Shepherd for the Perth Girls Orphanage in Adelaide Terrace, Perth in 1909. In 1945 it was transferred to the sanctuary in St Marys Middle Swan. He exhibited six designs for stained glass and a stained glass panel Sparrows with the West Australian Society of Arts in the 1911 December exhibition, and more designs in 1912. He executed Francesco Vanzettis designs for his house in South Perth c.1903 and probably those of Mattie Furphy and J. W. R. Linton. He designed eight new windows for St Johns Anglican Church Fremantle, stained glass windows for St George’s Anglican Church Carnarvon, made up Linton’s design for a window in St George’s Cathedral, windows in Dardanup Church in 1908 and in 1927 the windows of Perth College Chapel.

Bishop Goldsmith dedicated the stained glass windows in St Mary’s Church at Dardanup on 20th May 1908. They had been given by Mrs Venn in memory of her husband the Hon. Harry Wittle Venn. A stained glass window, designed by H. Escourt and executed by Barnett Bros, was dedicated in the Chapel at the Perth Girls’ Orphanage, Adelaide Terrace, East Perth, on Sunday 4th April 1909 by Bishop Riley in memory of Archibald McKellar, a benefactor of the Orphanage, who died on 24th July 1904. In 1945 this stained glass window of the Good Shepherd was transferred to the north wall of the sanctuary of St Marys Church at Middle Swan.

Writers:

Dr Dorothy Erickson

Date written:

2010

Last updated:

2011