Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi

Medieval Stained Glass in Great Britain

[Image: Stained Glass Roundel]
[Image: ]

Your trail:

Norfolk: Heydon, Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul

O.S. TG 114274

Document Contents

Chancel

sIII.

Thumbnail Window Image

sIII A1.

A1. Fragments, including border-work with sunbursts and a foliage pattern, seaweed diaper, micro-architecture. Trace-line, stipple-shading, relieving. White glass, with yellow stain. c.1460 – c.1480. Modern border of white glass, light to medium external corrosion, medium paint loss in places, one or two reversed pieces.
h 0.55m, w 0.255m
NMR AA8/01682 (1980, b&w print, CVMA inv. no. 009467); DK (2008)

A2. Fragments, including quarry with yellow stain strapwork and possibly a central motif, border-work with a foliage pattern, part of an arm and a hand, micro-architecture, and an opaque piece. Technique as A1. Quarry, 14th-c; the rest, c.1460 – c.1480. Light to medium external corrosion, one or two reversed pieces.
h 0.675m, w 0.27m
NMR AA8/01682 (1980, b&w print, CVMA inv. no.009467); DK (2008)

B1. Fragments, including border work with a foliage pattern, white ?drapery, and micro-architecture. Technique as A1. c.1460 – c.1480. Some heavy external corrosion, one or two reversed pieces.
h 0.695m, w 0.255m
NMR AA8/01682 (1980, b&w print, CVMA inv. no.009467); DK (2008)

B2. Fragments, including a lion mask and a sunburst, both from a border, a foliage pattern and a lozenge pattern, white drapery, and micro-architecture. Technique as A1. c.1460 – c.1480. Medium to heavy external corrosion, heavy internal dirt or crusting, some paint loss, one or two reversed pieces.
h 0.72m, w 0.26m
NMR AA8/01682 (1980, b&w print, CVMA inv. no.009467); DK (2008)

C1. Fragments, including a female head from a main-light figure wearing a veil and wimple, set against fragments of pot-blue (including seaweed diaper), white drapery with yellow stain decoration, a small crown, the end of a scroll, part of a chequered pedestal, and micro-architecture. Technique as A1. c.1460 – c.1480. Heavy external corrosion on the face and a few other pieces, some paint loss, one or two reversed pieces.
h 0.795m, w 0.255m
NMR AA8/01682 (1980, b&w print, CVMA inv. no.009467); DK (2008)

C2. Fragments, including a small head of the Virgin Mary from an Annunciation, facing to sinister, looking up at the dove; part of a female figure with a white maternity dress laced across the front, probably from a scene of the Visitation; 8 border-work with a sunburst and foliage pattern, white drapery, blue pieces, and micro-architecture. Technique as A1. c.1460 – c.1480. Light external corrosion, a little paint loss, one or two reversed pieces.
h 0.795m, w 0.255m
NMR AA8/01682 (1980, b&w print, CVMA inv. no.009467); DK (2008)

Footnotes

8.
Similar dresses are seen at St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, and East Harling. The fragment here may have been powdered with Es, identifying it being as from St Elizabeth. The piece is inside-out, but one ‘E’ in upper case is visible. Return to context

Document Contents

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi

© 2010 King's College London