Feast of S. James the Great. Pictured in the first stained glass window on the right (South side) of the church, standing on the left (east side of that window), above the altar dedicated to him. He appears dressed as a pilgrim to his own shrine in Santiago de Compostela, where his remains now rest. He was taller than St James the Less – hence his name. He was the son of Zebedee and brother of St John, put to the sword by king Herod Agrippa (Acts 12.2). The figure in the window has a head without a nimbus (halo). This head used to be in the St Thomas window before the 1970s restoration, and has been said to be ‘the head of God’ by John Thornton! It clearly does not belong to St James.