Isabella Gray Kains and Mary Zebby Kains
The window entitled "I Am The Resurrection And The Life" is situated in the Chancel area on the west side. It was given in memory of Isabella and Mary Kains. It shows Christ ascending with holes in his hands and feet.

Frederick Kains
The window has the inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This" and shows Christ carrying His Cross. It is situated in the Chancel almost above the organ on the east side.

Archibald and Mary Kains
The window "Christ Ascending To Heaven" is situated above the altar. It is in memory of Archibald M. Kains and his wife, Mary Hicks. It was installed in 1937 after the Chancel area was enlarged. The manufacturer was Robert McCausland of Toronto.

Charles and Eliza Hayward
The window which shows our Lord as the Good Shepherd, was given by Bert and Muriel Foyston as a memorial to Charles & Eliza Hayward, Muriel's parents. Muriel was a long-time resident of Byron and a loved member of St. Anne's Church since 1920. Bert was rector's warden from 1933-1937.

William Robert and Sarah Matilda Hart
[written by: Kathleen M. Hart Ellis]

The window "Suffer The Little Children To Come Unto Me" is situated on the west side of the church. It was installed 1966 in memory of the parents of Kathleen Hart Ellis and Frances Hart Waring.

Our great-grandmother, Mrs. Stephen Alger Hart, a widow, and her son, James, came from England in 1860 and settled on the north-west comer of Wonderland and Commissioners Road. From there, she walked to the little Anglican Church at Hall's Mills, which later became St. Anne's Church of Byron.

Henry Hall
Henry Hall, M.D.

This is the oldest memorial window in the church, probably installed in 1878. Given by a grateful congregation, the window provides a permanent reminder of the importance of Dr. Henry Hall, and the entire Hall family, in the history of the church.

The Nativity window was donated by George Cotton in memory of his parents, William and Sarah. It shows Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus with a sheep and cow looking on.

Stained Glass

The stained glass windows of St. Anne's not only highlight certain biblical stories, but also tell of the dedication of some of St. Anne's earliest families. Several original windows have survived or elements of those windows have been incorporated into others. The Henry Hall, M.D. window is the oldest one remaining in the church.

1937 Windows
Five memorial windows were installed in the church in 1937 as part of extensive rebuilding and refurbishing. The rector at the time, Reverend V. M. Durnford, requested a set of windows, each of which would depict Jesus as the central figure. Several parishioners answered the call. Hence, the three Kains windows plus the Hayward and Shore windows, were donated and placed in the church. All of them were manufactured by Robert McCausland Limited of Toronto. When you choose the linked family name, a pop-up window will open to view images of the windows and their story: William and Sarah Cotton; William Robert and Sarah Matilda Hart; Charles and Eliza Hayward; Archibald and Mary Kains; Frederick Kains; Isabella Gray Kains and Mary Zebby Kains; and Harry and Marion L. Shore.

Note that the two memorial windows flanking the altar window appear noticeably shorter than those in the nave. The lower portions of these windows, which are plain glass, are hidden by the chancel panelling.

Three windows were in memory of the Kains family - one of the original pioneer families who settled in and around the village of Byron.

In 1976 the one remaining large window was filled with a memorial window to Alan C. Shepherd, a lon-time Layreader at St. Anne's.

Over the church's entrance dootr is a large transom window installed in 1988 as a memrial to Florence and Bill Lang.

Parish Hall
The three windows, mounted and illuminated on the south wall of the Heritage Room, were reconstructed from previous St. Anne's windows. The early stained glass windows, rather plain in design, were removed from the church in 1937 when pictorial windows were installed. The old windows were stored away for four decades. Part of that time, they were kept in a barn belonging to parishioner Marian Trestain.

In 1978, the year of the church's 125th anniversary, the windows were retrieved. Parishioners Jack Sherwood, with help from his son, John, took five or six windows, pieced them together, and came up with three windows to fit the Heritage Room space. They make a tangible reminder of past generations.

Growing Up with St. Anne’s..... (A five part series of memories)
Written by:  Author requests to remain anonymous

Part One
In 1923, I was born and subsequently Christened at the old St. Anne’s Church, by the Reverend Mr. Durnford. The manse was in Hyde Park adjacent to the Anglican Church. Rev. Durnford’s Parish consisted of 3 churches – Byron’s St. Anne’s, Lambeth at the intersection of Longwoods Road and Colonel Talbot Road and at Hyde Park.

St. Anne’s was his earliest Sunday service which began at 11:00 a.m. and Sunday School at 10:00 a.m., which was held in the church, the boys sat at the rear with their teacher and the girls in the front pew, listening to our Miss Shearme in her black button boots and elegant suit and neat little hat, flicking the pages of a 2’ x 3’ series of coloured pictures showing Jesus and his Ministry in the Holy Land. We were a group of seven – Doris, Betty, Marian, Eva, Shirley, Gwen, Marjorie – and most of us are still alive, perhaps proof that Byron is a very good place to live.