Untitled (Nave windows, St John’s Te Awamutu)

1965

Jim Allen

Accessible

Type

  • Window(s)

Medium

  • Glass
  • Lead

Dimensions

  • Library window: H2400 x W1700mm; Mezzanine window (above library): H2470 x W1700mm; Four narrow windows in body of church H4680 (6 panes @ H780mm) x W500mm

Jim Allen, Untitled (Nave windows) (1965), St John’s Church, Te Awamutu

Image: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, Sept 2023.

1965–Current

St John’s Church, 162 Arawata St, Te Awamutu

Artists
Associated Artwork Person(s)
    • Doc (Richard) Toy (Architect)
    • F. O. Jones (Architect)
Associated Artwork Organisation(s)
    • St John's Anglican Church, Te Awamutu (Host site, Owner, Commissioner)

Description

Jim Allen recalled this commission as arriving in 1962 from the architect F. O. Jones, who had become aware of Allen’s practice through the Futuna Chapel project (Wellington). The commission was for several parts including a “Baldacchino” over the altar, windows for the nave and finally the three glazed walls of the baptistry bay.

For the windows in the body of the church he “used cathedral glass in muted colours” but with striking use of dynamic “leading” lines.

This work is one of four Allen made for the church. The others are:

  • Untitled (Baldacchino)
  • Untitled (Nave windows)
  • Untitled (Clerestory window)

See also:

  • Allen Jim et al. Jim Allen : The Skin of Years. Auckland : Clouds & Michael Lett, 2014, p73-4
  • ‘St Johns church’ (1965) by Jim Mandeno. (Te Awamutu Museum Online Collection, accession number 2009.13.343)