Category: Panel of the Month
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An Early Medieval Canopy: Museum Collections and the Dispersal of Medieval Stained Glass
A 12th-century canopy in the Yorkshire Museum. (YORYM: 2009. 406)An important collection of stained glass at Yorkshire Museum will form part of the newly displayed medieval galleries in York, due to reopen in August 2010. The recent cataloguing of this collection has identified many of the panels and led to several interesting finds, one of…
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When Devils Prowled: Jangling & Idle Gossip in Medieval Churches
This month’s panel is a tracery light from the parish church of St Nicholas at Stanford-on-Avon, near Daventry, in Northamptonshire. Description of panel The panel shows three women in conversation while surrounded by assorted denizens of hell. The most prominent of the women wears a pot metal yellow mantle over a murrey gown and holds…
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The Warning to Sabbath Breakers from St Neot Church
Drawing of The Warning to Sabbath Breakers c.1824, St Neot, Cornwall.This month’s Panel of the Month is perhaps the only surviving representation of the Warning to Sabbath Breakers, or Sunday Christ, in stained glass anywhere in northern Europe. Before its discovery it was widely thought that this unusual subject was depicted only in wall paintings…
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The Nine Orders of Angels
This month’s panel comes from the church of All Saints, North Street, York, world-famous for its remarkable collection of medieval stained glass. It shows a richly-attired figure from one of the Nine Orders of Angels carrying a sword (the Order of Dominations, sometimes Dominions) leading two kings, a pope and an emperor in procession. It…
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William Price, the glass at Mereworth and the Pigott panel at the V&A
The Pigott panel at the V&A.Geoffrey Lane considers a mysterious heraldic panel held by the V&A, its relationship to glass at Mereworth, Kent and the role of talented glass-painter William Price Mereworth Castle and Church In the 1720s, the Scottish architect Colen Campbell (d 1729) completely rebuilt Mereworth Castle in Kent as a Palladian villa…
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Philip le Bel, King Philip IV of France, York Minster
King, thought to be Philip le Bel, King Philip IV of France, window CHn8, chapter house vestibule, York Minster, c.1299–1306.This month’s panel is a figure of a king, thought to represent Philip IV of France, otherwise known as Philip le Bel, from the Chapter House Vestibule of York Minster. It forms part of a unique…
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Strawberry Hill Forever: The Restoration of a ‘Rampant Lion’
This month’s panel is probably the oldest piece of stained glass that was bought by the eighteenth-century collector Horace Walpole and installed in his ‘ little Gothic castle’ at Strawberry Hill in south west London sometime between 1747 and his death in 1797. It has been chosen to illustrate some of the problems facing conservators…
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St Cuthbert and the Otters at York Minster
Saint Cuthbert and the otters. Panel 13d, sVII, St Cuthbert window, York Minster. © Crown Copyright, NMR.This month’s panel comes from the St Cuthbert window, in the south-east transept of the choir of York Minster. The St Cuthbert window was commissioned in the 1440s to commemorate Thomas Langley, Bishop of Durham from 1406 until his…
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Henry Williams and the ‘ymage of Deth’ Roundel, Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire
Henry Williams and ‘ymage of deth’, A1, Stanford-on-Avon.© Gordon Plumb.This month’s panel comes from the tracery of the easternmost window of the north side of the chancel of the parish church of St Nicholas at Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire (nII). It is one of the most fascinating examples of a memento mori, or symbol of mortality, surviving…
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‘The Art of Buildings’: The St William Window, York Minster
St William met by civic dignitaries before Micklegate Bar, panel 9b. © Dean and Chapter of York.St William met by civic dignitaries before Micklegate Bar, panel 9b. © Dean and Chapter of York. This month’s panel comes from the St William window, York Minster. While the design, authorship and patronage of this 15th-century masterpiece often…