Pictured here is an image of the ‘Peace Window’, created in Tiffany stained glass for the Conant Memorial Church in Dudley, Massachusetts. Like John Washington’s painting in All Saints’ Church, East Budleigh, the ‘Peace Window’ depicts the events of 1625 at Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
The artist had not seen the Dudley ‘Peace Window’ before he started work on his ‘Blessed are the Peacemakers’. The Conant Memorial Church and its ‘Peace Window’ were commissioned by the industrialist and philanthropist Hezekiah Conant (1827-1902).
In a souvenir booklet, published in 1893 to celebrate the completion of the Conant Memorial Church, Hezekiah Conant wrote that ‘the scene depicted by the painter shows Roger Conant’s influence for good among his fellow-colonists, as also his Christian forbearance and love of peace’.
Sadly the 'Peace Window' was destroyed in a storm in 1946.
You can read more about Hezekiah Conant at https://conant400.blogspot.com/2021/11/43-some-other-conants-hezekiah-conant.html
If you are interested in the history of early America, and Roger Conant as a peacemaker in troubled times you can join the Devon Peacemaker Festival Facebook group at
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