Stained glass window at Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, England (@ CJG / Alamy)

Stained glass window at Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, England (@ CJG / Alamy)

comments,

• How does a knockout vision like this become reality?""It\s what happens when a bomb goes off, apparently
• “Man\s progress from birth to death and from death to resurrection and transfiguration...”""That\s what you\re looking at
• We\re marking the consecration of a UK cathedral, which took place here on this day, 1962.""Have you ever been sent to Coventry?
• Benjamin Britten composed a stirring anthem to celebrate the completion of this epic stained glass window.""He really smashed it, quite frankly