A church's stained glass window of slave trader Edward Colston is to be replaced with one featuring Jesus ‘in multiple ethnicities’ and refugees in a boat. St Mary Redcliff church in Bristol removed four stained-glass panels dedicated to Colston two years ago following the toppling of his statue.
The window was temporarily replaced with plain panels and the church invited the public to submit new designs in a competition. Last year a local junior doctor in Bristol Ealish Swift won the contest with a series of images showing a ‘non-white’ Jesus in a variety of situations.
Permission for the windows to be replaced has now been granted by the Church of England’s court in Bristol. New versions of Dr Swift's winning designs have been revealed and will now be made and installed at the historic church.
