Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi

Medieval Stained Glass in Great Britain

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Norfolk: Cley, Parish Church of St Margaret

O.S. TG 048432

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nII.

1a. Fragments leaded into plain modern quarries, including white drapery, some with ermine pattern and yellow stain hem with pattern of circles; feathers; part of a pair of bare legs from a seated figure; micro-architecture, including parts of an ears-of-barley pedestal and of another pedestal with clifflets and plants below; ornament from a foil, probably from a tracery light. 7 White glass, with trace line, stipple shading, relieving, and yellow stain. c.1440 – c.1460. Moderate external corrosion, some disfiguring internal crusting.
h 0.705m, w 0.53m
DK (2008)

1b. Fragments leaded into plain modern quarries, including the upper part of the figure of the nimbed (?)Virgin Mary facing to dexter, wearing a blue veil and white wimple, offering her breast; the left arm and part of the wounded torso from a depiction of the crucified Christ; white drapery with a pattern of Is set against cross-hatching and foliage, which may be part of a female figure kneeling before an altar-tomb; micro-architecture, and parts of pod eyelets. White and blue glass, with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving, and yellow stain. c.1440 –c.1460. Light–moderate external corrosion.
h 0.705m, w 0.53m
DK (2008)

A1. Fragments leaded into plain modern quarries with two bullions, including a tree; blue, ruby and (?)pot-yellow glass; micro-architecture; and part of a pod eyelet. White, blue and ruby glass, with trace-line, matt wash, stipple shading, relieving, and yellow stain, including on blue glass. c.1440 – c.1460. Moderate external corrosion, some disfiguring internal crusting, some pieces opaque.
h 0.43m, w 0.44m
DK (2008)

North Clerestory

NIX.

C1-2, D1-2. Circular pieces of plain ruby.
Measurements not available.

NXII.

A1. Fragment of crowned 'IHS' motif on background with relieved circles. White glass, with trace-line, thick matt wash, relieving, and yellow stain. 15th-c. Repair leads.
Measurements not available.
DK (2008)

South Aisle

sIX.

A1. St Agatha standing facing to sinister, nimbed and with long hair, wearing a white mantle with yellow-stain hem over a ruby robe, leaving the breast exposed, holding a book in her right hand and a flesh-hook in her left, in a canopied niche with ears-of-barley pedestal, with plants and clifflets below and a plain blue background. White, ruby and blue glass, with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. c.1450 – c.1460. Most of the canopy top, some of the side-shafting and pedestal, and two pieces of the blue background are missing and patched with toned modern glass, as is the lower right part of the drapery; small piece of ruby inserted in the background next to the flesh-hook; light–medium external corrosion; a few repair leads.
h 0.775m, w 0.20m
DK (2008)

A2. St (?)Sitha standing facing to dexter, wearing a white mantle with a yellow-stain hem with trefoil pattern and (?)apron over a blue robe, holding a book in her left hand; on the apron are three crosses. 8 Setting and technique as A1, but with ruby background. c.1450 – c.1460. The original lead lines of the figure are extant, but the head, chest, right hand, and parts of the mantle are missing and patched with toned glass (except the right hand, which is in clear glass); also patched with toned glass are the top lobe of the canopy and part of the side shafting and pedestal. Moderate–heavy external corrosion, including some loss of the ruby flashing; several repair leads.
h 0.735m, w 0.20m
DK (2008)

A3. A nimbed female saint standing facing to sinister, wearing a white mantle with yellow-stain hem with a pattern of circles over a ruby robe, holding a stake point downwards, with her right hand and a fold of her mantle with the left. Setting and technique as A1. c.1450 – c.1460. Top foil of the canopy missing and replaced by toned glass; lower part of the face now modern white glass; moderate–heavy external corrosion; some repair leads.
h 0.73m, w 0.20m
DK (2008)

A4. St Petronilla, nimbed, standing and facing to dexter, wearing a white mantle with yellow-stain hem over a blue robe, holding an upright key in her left hand and with her right is placed across her chest. Setting and technique as A1, with ruby background. c.1450 – c.1460. Parts of the canopy, ruby background, pedestal, nimbus and robe missing and replaced with toned glass; a large piece over the background and left part of the body missing and patched with modern white glass; light–medium external corrosion; some repair leads.
h 0.73m, w 0.20m
DK (2008)

A5. St Barbara standing, with long hair, facing to sinister, wearing a white mantle and ruby robe, holding a palm branch in her left hand. 9 Setting and technique as A1. c.1450 – c.1460. Parts of the canopy and pedestal, and much of the body, head and right arm missing and patched with toned glass; pedestal also has an intruded fragment with part of a titulus bearing in blackletter: 'Hic S(an)c(t)a'. Light–medium external corrosion; a little paint loss; some repair leads.
h 0.77m, w 0.02m
DK (2008)

A6. St Faith standing facing to dexter, wearing a white robe with yellow-stain hem with a meander pattern over a blue robe, holding a book in her right hand and a saw in her left. Setting and technique as A1, but with ruby background. c.1450 – c.1460. The head, neck and lower part of the figure are missing and replaced with toned glass; a fragment with a hand holding part of a tower from A5 has been inserted on the left canopy shaft; medium–heavy external corrosion; some repair leads.
h 0.78m, w 0.20m
DK (2008)

A7. St Apollonia standing, facing to sinister, wearing a white mantle with yellow-stain hem over a ruby robe, holding a book in her right hand and a pair of pincers holding a tooth in her left. Setting and technique as A1. c.1450 – c.1460. The head and the top lobe of the canopy missing; a piece of micro-architecture has been inserted in the blue background to the right of the head; canopy top smashed, with multiple strap leads and bodged with mastic; external corrosion, light–medium generally, heavy on ruby robe; a little paint loss; further repair leads.
h 0.73m, w 0.20m
DK (2008)

A8. St Cecilia, nimbed and with long hair, standing, facing to dexter, wearing a chaplet of roses and a white mantle with yellow-stain hem with a trefoil pattern over a blue robe, holding a similar chaplet with her right hand in a fold of her mantle. Setting and technique as A1, but with ruby background. c.1450 – c.1460. Much of the canopy top and mantle, the left hand and any attribute it may have been carrying, the top part of the robe and part of the pedestal and plants missing and patched with toned glass; severe external pitting; moderate paint loss; pedestal cracked.
h 0.73m, w 0.19m
DK (2008)

B3. Eyelet with relieved foliage. White glass, with thick matt wash and relieving. c.1450 – c.1460. Heavy external corrosion.
h 0.06m, w 0.09m
DK (2008)

C1. Quatrefoil with fragment of seated lion from a canopy top, set on toned glass and a bullion. White glass, with trace line, stipple shading, relieving, and yellow stain. c.1450 – c.1460. Medium external corrosion.
h 0.195m, w 0.32m
DK (2008)

C2. Quatrefoil with nimbed angel facing to dexter, wearing an alb, and playing a gittern or lute, against a background with white fillet, cusped yellow-stain border, and matt wash with relieved circles. White glass, with trace line, smear shading, matt wash, relieving, and yellow stain. c.1450 – c. 1460. Complete; light exterior corrosion, disfigured by heavy repair leads.
h 0.195m, w 0.32m
DK (2008)

D1. Quatrefoil with Jesus as Man of Sorrows. Jesus, facing to dexter, rises nimbed and bearded from the tomb, wearing a loin cloth and a crown of thorns, with his right arm across his chest. Drops of blood flow from the wound in his side and down his arms. Plain ruby ground with blue trees with yellow stain on each side. Technique as A1, with yellow stain on blue. c.1450 – c.1460. Parts of the ruby background replaced with white glass; intruded fragment with feathers on part of the left-hand tree; light–medium external corrosion; several repair leads on the figure.
h 0.40m, w 0.37m
DK (2008)

E2. Eyelet with relieved foliage. White glass, with trace-line, thick matt wash, relieving, and yellow stain. c.1450 – c.1460. Light exterior corrosion; some internal dirt.
h 0.05m, w 0.165m
DK (2008)

Footnotes

7.
At the base of this light and 1b is a modern inscription: ‘To the Glory of God and in loving remembrance | of Everett James Bishop Rector of this | Parish 1898 1922 This window was reopened | by Parishioners and Friends July 24th 1927’. A notice beside the window says that the Revd Bishop collected the fragments, but does not make clear whether they came from the church. Return to context
8.
St Sitha has a number of identifying attributes, including an apron. In this fragmentary figure, other attributes such as keys or a rosary may have been held in the missing right hand. The three crosses appear on a very similar fragment by the same workshop in Norwich St Peter Hungate, I 1c; these have not been explained. The piece of glass which would have included her right hand is of a shape that may suggest she was holding one or more loaves, or perhaps a rosary. For the cult of St Sitha (or Zita) in England, see Barron 2007. Return to context
9.
The identification of this figure is problematic. A slightly later figure of St Barbara at Bawburgh (sIV A1) has long hair and carries a palm and a tower. In A6 of the present window is a fragment of a hand holding the bottom of a tower that would fit neatly on the end of the right arm of this figure. Return to context
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