Glorious glass: St Andrew’s Church, Heckington

In 1946, 500 fragments of brightly coloured stained glass were removed from the window of St Andrew’s Church, Heckington, to make way for a modern replacement. This was not their first move – the fragments, which are mainly thought to represent the Lincolnshire church’s original 14th century glazing scheme, had previously been collated from numerous other windows within the building – but the years that followed could certainly be described as something of a journey for the medieval glass. The fragments’ travels began in the early 1960s, when they were sent to G King & Son in Norwich, in the hope of restoration. As the Parish Council of the time lacked the required fundi