Alice In Wonderland Windows, Daresbury

There are some entrancingly unexpected stained-glass windows of Alice in Wonderland to be found in All Saints’ Church at Daresbury in Cheshire.

- Lucinda Lambton

I write ‘unexpected’ but, considering the adventures Alice and her anthropomorphic pals got up to, it is no great surprise to find them here, above the altar of a late-19th century English parish church.

The creator of these characters, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, otherwise famed as Lewis Carroll – writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer – was born in Daresbury’s Old Parsonage in 1832. His father, Charles Dodgson, was the vicar there for sixteen years and our hero-to be lived at Daresbury for the first eleven years of his life (reading The Pilgrim’s Progress when he was seven years old), along with nine of his ten siblings.