Category: Issue 31
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Books
Saving St Teilo’s Saving St Teilo’s: Bringing a Medieval Church to Life Again. Edited by Geralldt D. Nash. National Museum Wales Books, Cardiff, 2009, available in English or Welsh editions. Paperback, 144 pages, 100 colour illustrations, 7 b/w illus, price £14.99. Available from the National Museum of Wales website. This fulsomely illustrated and well-written book…
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Features
Important Window at New College Oxford Conserved For the past few months conservators from the York Glaziers Trust have been working on the tracery lights and upper section of an important window – nV – from the chapel of New College, Oxford. [Fig. 1] The tracery lights are a precious survival of the original glazing…
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An Excavated Angel from Furness
Angel, perhaps by John Petty, c.1475-1500, excavated from Furness Abbey. © Bill Wakefield.This month we feature a panel included in Penny Hebgin-Barnes’ new CVMA volume The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire, available at a discounted rate until 31 July 2009. Part of an angel excavated at Furness Abbey provides fascinating evidence of late 15th-century Cistercian…
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News
St Neot: ‘Warning to Sabbath Breakers’ Discovery A possibly unique example of the ‘Sunday Christ’ or ‘Warning to Sabbath Breakers’ in stained glass is one of the many unexpected treasures revealed in this month’s special feature on the Pre-Dissolution stained glass of Cornwall. The panel can be seen at the Royal Cornwall Museum in…