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Medieval Stained Glass in Great Britain

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Norfolk: Bawburgh, Parish Church of St Mary and St Walstan

O.S. TG 153086

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Nave

North aisle

nIV.

All the panels in this window are set on plain quarry glazing.

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nIV 2a

2a. Head of God the Father(?) from a main-light figure, crowned, bearded and nimbed, facing to sinister. Trace-line with extensive use of stipple-shading and fine lines, with a few relieved highlights. Yellow stain on crown, leaving jewels white. Any back-painting is obscured by external corrosion, which is heavier on the beard. c.1490 – c.1500.
h 0.21m, w 0.185m
UEA 1D/11, 13, 17 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

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nIV 1–2b

1–2b. Fragment panel. The central feature is the nimbed head of a doctor of the church facing to sinister, wearing a pileus. Trace-line, matt wash, stipple-shading, back-painting on the pileus. White glass, with black paint and yellow stain. c.1465–80. A section on the left is missing, and there is some paint loss. Above is part of a blackletter inscription: ' [S(an)c(tu)]s gregor[ius] '. This may or may not belong with the head below, but attests to the former presence here of a series of the four doctors of the church. Much of the rest of the panel is made up of fragments of canopy work, with rod-and-leaf border, clifflets with plants, fragments of patterned quarries, and part of a nimbed male head, all c.1465–80. All fragments suffer from corrosion, some on both sides.
h 0.635m, w 0.235m
UEA 1D/11, 15 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

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nIV 3b

3b. Composite shield of arms. The dexter side consists of Delapole quartering Chaucer, for John Delapole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk. 18 The sinister side has the arms of Winter from a rather smaller shield, perhaps from a shield of Braunch impaling Winter. Trace-line, stipple-shading. White, pot-blue, and flashed ruby glass, with yellow stain. The Delapole fess is new, the lion has a repair lead and has lost some paint. The fess of the Winter impalement has two repair leads and there is some paint loss. c.1465 – c.1480.
h 0.22m, w 0.21m
UEA 1D/11–12 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

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nIV 2c

2c. Head of the Virgin Mary(?), crowned, nimbed, and facing to dexter, with long hair. Trace-line, stipple-shading. White glass with yellow stain. c.1490 – c.1500. Section of face and hair bottom right missing, also part of crown and hair on right; disfigured by repair leads, heavy external corrosion.
h 0.20m, w 0.17m
UEA 1D/11, 14, 16 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

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nIV A1

A1. Roundel with the first part of the text of the Nunc Dimittis on a spiralling scroll in blackletter: 'Nu(n)c dimittis | servu(m) tuu(m) d(omi)ne'. 19 The background is a thick matt wash from which circles are relieved. Stipple-shading on scroll. c.1465 – c.1480. The cusped border was originally painted with yellow stain, which has nearly all gone; otherwise in good condition, apart from a little paint loss.
d 0.185m
UEA 1D/11 and sine numero (1970–75, b&w neg.)

A2. Roundel with the second part of the text of the Nunc Dimittis in blackletter: 'Quia videru(n)t | [missing] mei salu[tare] '. 20 Scroll, background, and border as A1. c.1465 – c.1480. Badly smashed, with many repair leads; patched bottom left with fifteenth-century fragments; some paint loss; slight corrosion and wearing of yellow stain.
d 0.19m
UEA 1D/11 and sine numero (1970–75, b&w neg.)

A3. Roundel with the third part of the text of the Nunc Dimittis in blackletter: 'Quod parast[i] | ante facie(m) om(nium) '. 21 Scroll, background, and border as A1. c.1465 – c.1480. Placed inside out before last restoration and consequently has more paint loss, but the yellow stain is well preserved; light corrosion on both sides.
d 0.175m
UEA 1D/11 and sine numero (1970–75, b&w neg.)

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nIV A4

A4. Roundel with the fourth part of the text of the Nunc Dimittis in blackletter: 'Lume(n) ad re|velac(i)onem ge(n)t[ium] '. 22 Scroll, background, and border as A1. c.1465 – c.1480. Some paint loss, medium external corrosion.
d 0.18m
UEA 1D/11 and sine numero (1970–75, b&w neg.)

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nIV, tracery

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Glass now in nIV D1, before restoration

D1. Censing angel kneeling and facing to sinister with raised arms wearing a white robe with beaded hem. Wings extended horizontally to dexter. Part of a purple background with a leaf pattern to the right of the figure. The upper wing is in pot-yellow glass; the lower is made up of a piece of opaque, probably ruby, glass and one of green. Trace-line and relieving. c.1310–25. The upper half is a modern restoration using yellow stain, probably absent from the original; medium corrosion on white glass, heavier on coloured glass.
h 0.225m, w 0.185m
UEA 1D/10–11 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

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Glass now in nIV D2, before restoration

D2. Censing angel, as A1, but reversed. Wings green, white figure with section of ruby background. Technique as A1, with half-tone shading on hair. Date and corrosion as A1.
h 0.22m, w 0.23m
UEA 1D/10–11 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

nV.

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nV 3a

3a. Canopy top, with three arches, gable ends, and a central finial top. Trace-line, stipple-shading, relieving. White glass, with black paint and yellow stain. c.1465 – c.1480. The original background seems to have been ruby, but one piece of blue is used on the left; an area left of centre and on the left of the top foil is a modern restoration, and there are two inserted fragments; paint loss and exterior corrosion.
h 0.18m, w 0.57m
UEA 1D/18–19 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

3b. Canopy top, as 3a, but with a blue background. Date as 3a. The top foil and a piece on the left are modern restorations, and there are three inserted fragments; some paint loss and corrosion on blue glass.
h 0.18m, w 0.57m
UEA 1D/18, 20 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

South aisle

sIV.

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Glass now in sIV A1, before restoration

A1. St Barbara, standing against a seaweed diaper screen on a chequered pedestal, facing to sinister and holding a triple-turreted tower in her left hand and a palm branch in her right. She is nimbed and crowned, and her long hair falls down onto a blue mantle with an ermine lining and decorated yellow-stain hem. Beneath is a plain white robe with yellow-stain hem. Trace-line, stipple-shading with relieved highlights, and some back-painting. White and blue glass, with black paint and yellow stain. c.1470 – c.1480. One piece of the screen on the left and two on the right are modern restorations, as is a small piece of the palm branch; light exterior corrosion, heavier in places. In 1865, Winter recorded that the area above the figure now occupied by modern plain quarry glazing had a scroll with ‘S(an)c(t)a Barbara’, a star in the top cusp, and a ruby background.
h 0.54m, w 0.235m
UEA 1D/4–5 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

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Glass now in sIV B1, before restoration

B1. The upper part of a nimbed figure of the Angel Gabriel from an Annunciation(?) standing against a seaweed diaper screen facing to sinister, carrying a sceptre and wearing a diadem, a mantle over feathers, and a white robe, which is a restoration. There is a piece of ruby glass next to the robe and restored mantle. Trace-line, stipple-shading. White glass, with black paint and yellow stain. c.1465 – c.1470. The bottom part of the wing is also modern, and the piece with the arm is set a little too high. The whole is set on modern plain quarry glazing.
h 0.325m, w 0.235m
UEA 1D/4, 5 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

sV.

A1. Fragments set on plain quarry glazing, including a crowned and nimbed female saint’s head facing to sinister, and patterned quarries. Trace-line, stipple-shading, relieving. White glass, with black paint and yellow stain. c.1470 – c.1480. Slight exterior corrosion. The saint is probably St Margaret, as the original figure was paired with St Catherine in A2.
h 0.24m, w 0.23m
UEA 1D/6–7 (1970–75, b&w neg.)

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Head from sV A4 before restoration

A4. Fragmentary figure of St ?Catherine standing crowned and nimbed, facing to dexter and wearing a murrey mantle with ermine collar and lining over a white robe decorated with rosettes. She holds a sword, point upwards, in her left hand. Set on a few pieces of rose-en-soleil quarries. Trace-line, stipple-shading, relieving. White and murrey glass, with black paint and yellow stain. c.1470 – c.1480. Rather more than half of the upper part of the figure survives in a rather broken condition. Crown, nimbus, neck, and hand are all patched with medieval intrusions. In addition to the lower part, the right shoulder is missing, and there is a hole in the murrey mantle, which is also patched with a piece of blue glass. Slight exterior corrosion, heavier on the murrey glass.
h 0.315m, w 0.23m
UEA 1D/6, 8 and two sine numeris (1970–75, b&w negs)

B1. Ten fragments of rose-en-soleil quarries. Trace-line. White glass, with black paint and yellow stain. c.1470 – c.1480. Slight exterior corrosion.
UEA 1D/6–7 (1970–75, b&w negs)

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Glass now in sV B1 and B2 before restoration

B2. A fragmentary figure of the Virgin Mary Annunciate, kneeling, nimbed, and crowned with a low coronet, with long hair and a white robe decorated with a rosette pattern, before a prie-dieu with lectern, book, and lily pot, her head turned back to face to dexter. A scroll rises vertically to her right bearing in blackletter: 'Ecce ancilla domini fiat'; a dove flies across the middle of the scroll. The figure is set on fragmentary rose-en-soleil quarries. Trace-line, stipple-shading, relieving. White and blue glass, with black paint and yellow stain. c.1470 – c.1480. Much of the original panel is missing, including the feet and arms of the figure, though some of the blue fragments may be part of the mantle. The scroll, though complete, is misplaced and has many repair leads. Light to medium external corrosion.
h 0.48m, w 0.235m
UEA 1D/6, 8 and sine numero (1970–75, b&w negs)

Footnotes

18.
The Burghersh coat was adopted by Thomas Chaucer when he married Maud, daughter of Sir John Burghersh (Corder 1965, col. 231). Return to context
19.
Luke II, 29, minus ‘in pace’. Return to context
20.
Luke II, 30, minus ‘tuum’. Return to context
21.
Luke II, 31, minus ‘populorum’. Return to context
22.
Luke II, 32, minus ‘et gloriam plebes tuae Israhel’. Return to context

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