There are some entrancingly unexpected stained-glass windows of Alice in Wonderland to be found in All Saints' Church at Daresbury in Cheshire. 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. One of the most beguiling aspects of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is catching glimpses of 19th-century life: of hatters by the score being...
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