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Close detail of the Lewis Carroll Memorial Window in the Daniell Chapel at All Saints' Church, Daresbury, Cheshire, England, showing a richly coloured stained-glass panel combining Alice in Wonderland imagery with words from Carroll's poem Christmas Greetings (From a Fairy to a Child). The visible inscription reads: "Lady dear, if Fairies may / For a moment lay aside / Cunning tricks and elfish play, / 'Tis at happy Christmas-tide." Alice-related figures flank the text, rendered in the fantastical style associated with John Tenniel's illustrations, while decorative foliage, drapery and vivid red, green, blue, yellow and white glass frame the scene. The memorial window was designed by stained-glass artist Geoffrey Webb and dedicated in 1935 after admirers of Lewis Carroll around the world subscribed to a fund marking the centenary of his birth. The complete window places Carroll and Alice within a Nativity composition above five lower panels containing characters and scenes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; its three central lower panels carry verses from Christmas Greetings. Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson at Daresbury in 1832, spent his early childhood in the village, where his father was vicar, before becoming an Oxford mathematician, photographer and the author of the Alice books. Christmas Greetings is dated Christmas 1867 in published collections of Carroll's work. All Saints is Grade II* listed; most of the present sandstone church was rebuilt in 1871 by Austin and Paley, retaining its 16th-century west tower. The window is one of Daresbury's strongest surviving links with the internationally recognised writer and makes the church an important destination for literary tourism, Victorian literature, Alice enthusiasts, stained-glass study, church art and local Cheshire heritage. Other panels include the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Duchess, Gryphon, Mock Turtle, Queen of Hearts and Cheshire Cat.