The Scott Window within The Church of St Peter, Binton nr Stratford-on-Avon
Binton, Stratford
Within The Church of St Peter, Binton, Nr Welford on Avon
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the leader of the ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1910-12, spent his last few days in England in the little village of Binton, just west of Stratford-upon-Avon. They often came to this peaceful spot as his wife, Kathleen, was the sister of the resident Rector, Rev Hervey Bruce. It was here they said farewell before he set off aboard his ship, the Terra Nova, to Antarctica.
The church of St Peter within the village features the treasure of the Scott window, unveiled in 1915 and paid for by public subscription. This has 4 panes that describe the mission along with a photograph underneath the window of the whole group, taken in Antarctica on 18th January 1911.
See http://www.nmm.ac.uk/memorials/MemorialLargeImage.cfm?Banner=4&MemorialPage=4&MemorialID=M1348 for a full image of the window.
Each of the four panes reads;
1) 'Here Captain Scott with his brave companions/full of zeal to plant the British flag at/the South Pole receive their last farewells/on their way south'
2) 'Here the intrepid explorers coming upon/the flag of Amundsen learn with great/disappointment that the Norwegian expedition, had forstalled them'
3) 'Here Captain Oates, that brave and gallant/gentleman - unwilling to be a burden to/his companions, leaves them and the shelter/of the tent to die'
4) 'Here the search party erect a cairn to/mark the resting place of their gallant/countrymen, Capt. Scott, Dr Wilson, and Lt. Bowers'
'Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends'
Opening times
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