William Francis Dixon (1848-1929) was a pupil of Clayton & Bell, before setting up business on his own account in 1872. He moved to Munich in 1894 where he worked as a designer for the firm of Mayer, eventually dying there in 1929. The window is almost Art Nouveau in character and anticipates the influence of Beardsley by about a decade. Much of his glass is found in continental Europe but he is represented in Cardiff both at the Cathedral and above the Bute family burials at St Margaret’s church in Roath.


