Abstract

Sara Pilkington, daughter of Jonathan and Jools Pilkington, died unexpectedly in February 2012, during her final year studying Combined Arts (BA Hons) at Durham University where she was a member of Collingwood College. The wish of her parents, the donors, has always been to install within the Cathedral a lasting memorial to their daughter in a place she loved so much. They to create a positive, both physically and spiritually, out of such a tragic negative. Along with the cathedral architect, Rev Canon Rosalind Brown,amongst others I was invited to be part of the panel employed to select both a suitable artist and designer of a new window for the North Quire Aisle of Durham cathedral.