West window a memorial to parishioners who fell in the First World War, this window was designed by Messrs. Jones and Willis of Birmingham and depicts four soldier saints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
St. George<\/a> (d. 23 April 303),was a Christian who is accepted as a saint in Christianity and Islam. According to traditional rumours, he was a soldier in the Roman army The legend of Saint George and the Dragon was first recorded in the 11th century, in a Georgian source. It reached Catholic Europe in the 12th century. The tradition tells that a fierce dragon was causing panic at the city of Silene, Libya, at the time George arrived there. In order to prevent the dragon from devastating people from the city, they gave two sheep each day to the dragon, but when the sheep were not enough they were forced to sacrifice humans instead of the two sheep. The human to be sacrificed was elected by the city’s own people and one time the king’s daughter was chosen to be sacrificed but no one was willing to take her place. George saved the girl by slaying the dragon with a lance. The king was so grateful that he offered him treasures as a reward for saving his daughter’s life, but George refused it and instead he gave these to the poor. The people of the city were so amazed at what they had witnessed that they became Christians and were all baptized. George was executed by decapitation before Nicomedia’s city wall, on 23 April 303 as a result of the Diocletianic or Great Persecution which was the last and most severe persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n King Alfred<\/a>. (Also known as Alfred the Great),(848\/9 \u2013 26 October 899) was king of Wessex from 871 to c.\u2009886 and king of the Anglo-Saxons from c.\u2009886 to 899. He was the youngest son of King \u00c6thelwulf of Wessex. His father died when he was young, and three of Alfred’s brothers reigned in turn before him. After ascending the throne, Alfred spent several years fighting Viking invasions. He won a decisive victory in the Battle of Edington<\/a> in 878 and made an agreement with the Vikings, creating what was known as the Danelaw<\/a> in the North of England. Alfred also oversaw the conversion of Viking leader Guthrum to Christianity. He defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, becoming the dominant ruler in England.Alfred had a reputation as a learned and merciful man of a gracious and level-headed nature who encouraged education, proposing that primary education be conducted in Old English rather than Latin and improving the legal system and military structure and his people’s quality of life. He was given the epithet “the Great” during and after the Reformation in the 16th century<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cake legend<\/p>\n\n\n\n A legend tells how when Alfred first fled to the Somerset Levels, he was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some wheaten cakes she had left cooking on the fire.Preoccupied with the problems of his kingdom, Alfred accidentally let the cakes burn and was roundly scolded by the woman upon her return. There is no contemporary evidence for the legend, but it is possible that there was an early oral tradition. The first time that it was actually written was about 100 years after Alfred’s death<\/p>\n\n\n\n