Archibald Keightley Nicholson

Who was Archibald Keightley Nicholson?

Archibald Keightley Nicholson was an English 20th century ecclesiastical stained-glass maker. His father was Charles Nicholson and his two brothers, Charles and Sydney, were a church architect and church musician respectively.

During his lifetime Nicholson is said to have carried out over 700 windows, including work in the cathedrals of Newcastle, Chester, Lincoln, Norwich, Southwell, Bradford, Worcester and Wells.

He designed the rose window of the south transept at Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury, along with a 1932 window dedicated to St Stephen Harding in the Musicians' Chapel at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, both in London. The latter church also contains a Memorial Window to him, by Gerald E.R. Smith, with the following inscription:

He also designed a window at St John the Baptist, Wonersh. The east window there is his earliest work - it is dated 1902, shows Christ with St George and St Alban - and he also produced its two smaller windows in the north wall depicting the Madonna & Child and the Annunciation.

In St Wilfrid's Church, Mobberley is Nicholson's window to the memory of George Mallory who, with Andrew Irvine lost his life climbing Mount Everest in 1924.