Trena Cox

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St Etheldreda, a work by Trena Cox in St Stephen, Prenton, Birkenhead

Trena Mary Cox (1895–1980) was an English stained glass artist. She was born Emma Trina Cox on 3 March 1895, in the Lower Bebington Urban District (i.e. not Bebbington), on the Wirral Peninsula and grew up around Birkenhead. She trained at the Laird School of Art. In 1924 she moved to Chester and set up her studio in Victoria Road Chester, Cheshire, either adjacent to, or within, the Kaleyard works of Williams, Gamon & Co., with whom she remained associated until the Second World War. In about 1945, Trena Cox moved to 96 Watergate Street, Chester, which remained her home and, at least later, her studio, until she retired in 1972 (at the age of 77) and died, on 11 February 1980 (not in 1977, as frequently quoted). Most of her works are in churches in the old counties of Cheshire and Lancashire. She was a fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. The authors of the Buildings of England series comment that "her windows are usually small, her figures modest, often with small-scale detail in the quarries" (small pieces of square or diamond-shaped glass set diagonally).

Until the publication of Jones (2012), there was very little coherent information available about the life of Trena Cox and errors in some earlier references, concerning, for example, the year of her death, have unfortunately been perpetuated by later authors.

Works

Building	Location	Date	Subject, notes and references
Chester College Chapel	Chester, Cheshire	1923, 1933, 1962	A number of windows in the chapel and in its corridor.
Cloister, Chester Cathedral	Chester, Cheshire	1925–27	Eight figures in the southwest corner of the cloister.
Slype, Chester Cathedral	Chester, Cheshire	1927	Saint Christopher.
Church of St Mary and All Saints	Whalley, Lancashire	1928	East window in the north chapel, depicting Saint George, Saint Nicholas, and King Arthur.
Trevor Church	Trevor, Wrexham, Wales	1930	Crucifixion.
St Stephen's Church	Prenton, Birkenhead, Merseyside	1932	Several small windows.
St Michael's Church	Blundellsands, Merseyside	1932; 1933	Annunciation; Saint Christopher.
Church of the Resurrection and All Saints	Caldy, Wirral, Merseyside	1933; 1946	Saint George, Saint Werburgh, Saint Bridget, and Saint Martin.
St Michael's Church	Huyton, Merseyside	1933	Simeon with Jesus; Mary sitting at Jesus' feet.
St Bartholomew's Church	Thurstaston, Wirral. Merseyside	1934; 1951	Two windows.
St Werburgh's Church	Chester, Cheshire	1936	A set of eight small windows in the narthex.
Holy Trinity Church	Lower Beeding, West Sussex	1936	Good Shepherd.
St Michael's Church	Shotwick, Cheshire	1938	Saint Michael.
Chapel of St Mary de Castro, Chester Castle	Chester, Cheshire	1939	A small version of the Mother and Child.
St Matthew's Church	Stretton, Cheshire	1939	West window.
Holy Trinity Church	Bickerton, Cheshire	c. 1940
Christ Church	Crowton, Cheshire	1946	Mother and Child.
St Oswald's Church	Bidston, Birkenhead, Merseyside	1947	Epiphany.
St Ambrose Church	Widnes, Cheshire	1947	A window given by German prisoners of war, depicting Saint Boniface.
St Matthew's Church	Buckley, Flintshire, Wales	1948	Christ in Glory as a Child in the south wall of the south aisle.
St Lawrence's Church	Stoak, Cheshire	1948	Saint Christopher and Saint George moved here from Christ Church, Chester, in 1997.
St James' Church	Leyland, Lancashire	1949	Saint Michael; Saint George.
St John the Evangelist's Church	Norley, Cheshire	1949	The west window of the north aisle.
Emmanuel Church	Buckley, Flintshire, Wales	1950; 1962	Scenes from the birth and early life of Christ on the south wall.
All Saints Church	Bubwith, East Yorkshire	1951	Te Deum.
Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham	Walsingham, Norfolk	1955	Annunciation.
St Aiden's Church	Wheatley Hills, Doncaster, South Yorkshire	1957	Vision of St. John on Patmos.
Shrewsbury Cathedral	Shrewsbury, Shropshire	1960	A window with armorial items in the porch.
All Saints' Church	Daresbury, Cheshire	c. 1960	Two windows.
St John the Baptist's Church	Chester, Cheshire	1969	Aethelred and the Hind, in the narthex.
St Mary Magdalen's Church	Tallern Green, Wrexham, Wales	1970	An Angel Greets the Three Women at the Empty Tomb in the south wall of the nave.
Wrexham Cathedral	Wrexham, Wales	1970	Saint Michael and angels on the east wall of the south transept.
The Priory and Parish Church of Saint Mary (Beddgelert)	Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales	Undated	Virgin and Child and David on the north wall of the nave.
St Peter's Church	Chester, Cheshire	Undated	On the west side of the church.
St Chad's Church	Farndon, Cheshire	Undated	Three windows.
St James' Church	Ince, Cheshire	Undated	Saint Francis and Saint Werburgh.
St Michael and All Angels Church	Little Leigh, Cheshire	Undated
St Stephen's Church	Moulton, Cheshire	Undated	Two west windows and two in the north aisle.
Holy Trinity Church	Northwich, Cheshire	Undated	Christmas scenes.
St Trillo's Chapel	Rhos-on-Sea, Conwy, Wales	Undated	Saint Elian in the south wall.
Holy Cross Church	Woodchurch, Birkenhead, Merseyside	Undated	A window in the north aisle.

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