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Stained glass, "south side of the chancel, by Mary Lowndes. She was one of the major figures of the Arts and Crafts Movement, working with such greats as Christopher Whall and creating the Glass House Studio in Fulham with Alfred Drury, but she was also an important figure in the Suffragette movement. It was Mary Lowndes who designed their well-known posters, including the ones letting the public know about the Cat & Mouse Act. Her work can be found in half a dozen East Anglian churches, most notably at Lamarsh in Essex and Ufford in Cambridgeshire, where she designed full schemes, but also at Snape in Suffolk, Linton in Cambridgeshire and here at Shropham, her only work in Norfolk and an early work at that. It depicts the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi in an English woodland, a fiery angel standing behind the Holy Family. At the bottom are scenes of the shepherds in the hills with their flocks and the wise men following the star." (text by Simon Knott).