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Medieval Stained Glass in Great Britain

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Norfolk: Letheringsett, Parish Church of St Andrew

O.S. TG 060389

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2a. Fragments. At the top is a quatrefoil with a head of God the Father against a glory; trace-line, matt wash, relieving; white glass, with yellow stain; c.1425 – c.1435; top foil missing and replaced by a sunburst. Surrounded by border pieces with a fleur-de-lys motif, rod-and-leaf border, and micro-architecture, all 15th-c. Below is a hand carrying a basket from a figure of St Philip, between parts of two musical angels, with a further one below, all in the same style. That on the left plays a harp and the other two lutes; all are dressed in white tunics and come from trefoil-headed openings with a white border and a background of relieved circles; trace-line, matt wash, relieving; white glass (no yellow stain visible); c.1425 – c.1435; light to medium external corrosion, many repair leads. Other fragments include the upper part of an angel with a spiked headdress carrying a sceptre and wearing an ermine tippet; trace-line, matt wash, relieving; white glass, with yellow stain, c.1460 – c.1480, medium external corrosion. Also part of a crozier or cross staff, part of a chequered pedestal, rod-and-leaf border, an ermine tippet, pot-blue (all 15th-c); some border pieces with lozenge and rose motifs (late 14th-c).
h 0.70m, w 0.32m
DK (2008)

2b. Fragments. At the top the head of a nimbed angel wearing a chaplet, facing to dexter, to which part of an angel placed below with ermine tippet and playing a lute may or may not belong; trace-line, matt wash, relieving; white glass, with yellow stain; c.1450 – c.1460; medium external corrosion on head. Surrounding this are fragments of border with fleur-de-lys motif, wings, micro-architecture, pod-and-foliage ornament (all 15th-c). Below is a small shield placed on an arch from a canopy top Argent a lion rampant gules debruised by a baston sable (Braunche); 3 diaper of small brush-marks on the field, trace-line; white and flashed-ruby glass; c.1430 – c.1460; medium external corrosion, top right fragment of shield missing. Other fragments include the head of a woman with cauls and a veil partly covering her head, and with right hand raised beside her head; trace-line, matt wash, relieving; white glass; c.1425 – c.1435, medium external corrosion. 4 Also micro-architecture, border work with fleur-de-lys and lozenge motifs, illegible pieces of blackletter script on scrolls, white drapery with yellow-stain decoration, part of a sunburst, and a crown with the head of a crozier in very corroded, perhaps pot-yellow glass (all 15th-c).
h 0.70m, w 0.32m
DK (2008)

Footnotes

3.
Chesshyre and Woodcock 1992, p. 218. The Braunche family had manorial interests in various nearby villages in the fifteenth century, at Hunworth, Kelling and Stody; Blomefield and Parkin 1805–10, IX, pp. 401, 407, 441. Return to context
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Nichols (2002, p. 72) suggests that this was from a scene of Lazarus being unshrouded, but the person depicted is clearly female. Return to context

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