For a window in the north aisle of St Paul's Church, Morton, near Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire. The church was rebuilt by G.T. Micklethwaite in 1891, and Morris & Co. provided a series of windows from that year until 1914. Most were filled with single standing figures which had been used before elsewhere, but for two of the windows, at the east end of the north aisle and in the south transept Burne-Jones designed new subjects, The Stoning of St Stephen and St Paul preaching at Athens, in December 1891, adopting the pictorial style which characterised many of his designs for stained glass at this date, including the famous windows in Birmingham Cathedral (1885-97). In his account book he described the cartoons tongue-in-cheek as follows: 'Two designs for windows - of SS. Stephen & Paul - in which, stripping my mind of all that is human & pleasurable in imagination , & investigating it with the ill fitting & dusty rags of Protestant temper, I completed to my own memory a monument of self-abnegation. #150.'

The two windows are reproduced in Sewter, op.cit., I, pls. 610-11. The St Stephen window is also illustrated in Martin Harrison and Bill Waters, Burne-Jones, 1973, p.151, fig.224, where it is described as 'a startlingly effective design in the master's late style.'

The St Stephen window was erected to the memory of Samuel and Jane Sandars, who had died respectively in 1839 and 1849, Jane having laid the foundation stone of an earlier church in 1845. It seems likely that they were forebears of the Samuel Sandars who was a munificent benefactor of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, particularly in the field of illuminated manuscripts, and endowed a Readership in Bibliography at Cambridge on his death in 1894.