Church leaders in Bristol have given permission for historic stained glass windows that commemorate Edward Colston to be replaced with windows that show Jesus depicted ‘in multiple ethnicities’, and with refugees in a boat.
The announcement of the ruling by the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Bristol has been made on the third anniversary of the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston, back on June 7, 2020.
A year later, leaders of St Mary Redcliffe Church announced a competition to come up with designs for replacement stained glass windows, and in September 2022, a local junior doctor in Bristol, Ealish Swift, won that contest with a series of images showing a ‘non-white’ Jesus in a variety of situations.
