The centrepiece window of the Sanctuary is the "Baddeley window" depicting The Resurrection. The window was, sadly, given in memory of Lt. Alfred Baddeley who served in the Royal Sussex Regiment and was killed in action near the Somme three weeks before the end of the 1st World War aged 19 years. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives as his next of kin, his brother, Walter Baddeley, who eventually became a Bishop in the Melanesian Islands. It would seem highly probable that the theme of The Resurrection for the window was the choice of the Walter Baddeley, as a memoriam to his brother, Alfred.
At the time of the windows installation in St Andrew’s, Walter Baddeley would have been entering Theological College.

Who was Walter Baddeley? Walter was born in Portslade in 1894 and educated at Varndean School, Brighton, Keble College, Oxford and Cuddesdon College. He enlisted in the army in 1914 and took part in some of the fiercest engagements on the Western Front with the Royal Sussex Regiment, serving throughout the war. He was awarded the DSO and the MC and bar and was four times mentioned in dispatches. In 1921 he took Holy Orders and served as a Curate and finally a Vicar in Yorkshire until 1932, when he was chosen to be a Bishop in Melanesia. On his arrival in Melanesia, Bishop Baddeley found that the Anglican Melanesian Mission’s medical work was given low priority. He immediately changed this priority and promoted medical work as integral to the Mission’s work. This was a consequence of his belief in ‘the redemption of the whole man’. He had been a Bishop there for about seven years when the 1939-45 War broke out.

In the war years Dr Baddeley was never driven out of his diocese during the time of the Japanese occupation. He hid in the jungle living off the land, where he carried on his ministry, caring for the sick and wounded Islanders who were fighting for the Allied cause. Bishop Baddeley was awarded the United States Medal of Freedom with palm for his services in aiding American Servicemen. In 1944 he visited Australia to seek funds for the restoration of his mission station, the school in Maravovo and infant welfare centre in Siota, which were all destroyed in the War. When Dr Baddeley left Melanesia to become the Suffragan Bishop of Whitby in 1947, he had the satisfaction of seeing the work of his former diocese re-established on firm foundations.

In 1954 he was appointed Bishop of Blackburn and served as a Member of the House of Lords.
The Right Rev. W.H. Baddeley, DSO., MC., DD., Bishop of Blackburn (and former parishioner and Sunday School Teacher of St Andrew’s, Portslade) died in 1960.

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Walter Hubert Baddeley born 1894 in Portslade in the County of Sussex,.
Educated at Varndean College Brighton, Keble College Oxford, BA and MA., and Cuddesdon Theological College.
1914-1919 Served in Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front in World War 1.
1917 Mentioned in dispatches five times; MC and (1918) bar, 1919 DSO.
1921 Deacon and ordained Priest.
1921-1924 Assistant Curate St Bartholomew Armley Leeds, Diocese of York.
1924-1932 Vicar of South Bank in the Diocese of York.
1929-1932 Proctor in Convocation of York.
1932-1947 Bishop of Melanesia.
1942-1945 Honorary Chaplain to Fiji military forces.
1944 Honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology (STD) of Columbia University New York.
1945 United States of America Medal of Freedom.
1947-1954 Bishop of Whitby.
1954-1960 Bishop of Blackburn.
1955 Chaplain and Sub-Prelate Order of S John of Jerusalem.

See http://www.stnicolas.standrewportslade.btinternet.co.uk/standrew_church_history_portslade.htm for further information