Norfolk: Norwich, St Stephen, Parish Church of St Stephen

I.

1a. Fragments, including the top half of a small angel facing to the dexter and wearing a diadem and feathered tights, crossing it hands on its chest. ²⁹ The piece is curved at the top and appears to have been circular or possibly oval when complete, and surrounded by a border decorated with springing buds. White glass with trace-line, matt wash, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain, c.1520-c.1540. Other fragments include blue cloud, part of a roundel with an MR monogram and fragments of canopy and plants, 15th-c; two Tudor roses, pieces of pot-yellow and blue and several pieces of micro-architecture c.1520-40. At the bottom are pieces of blackletter inscription. On one piece is: ' co(n)siderate'. On another piece, which is upside-down, are parts of two lines: 'tres viros' above, and 'septem' below. ³⁰ Another piece with two curved lines of text has '|unanus' above and '|eamabe' below; these have not been identified. 15th-16th-c. Modern fillet along bottom. Some paint loss on the inscriptions.
h 0.67m, w 0.55m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05717, 05720 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003193, 003188); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

2-3a.

2-3a . A fragmentary depiction of the Sacrifice of Isaac. Bottom right is a horse seen from behind with a barrel strapped to its side and a basket of food on the saddle which two servants, one on each side, are lifting off. The servant on the left wears a ruby tunic with green sleeves and blue hose with ruby shoes and that on the right appears to be dressed in ruby and blue garments with a blue hat and holds a loaf in his left hand. Above him a fragmentary figure of a man facing to dexter and holding a bundle of faggots on his shoulder and a dish of food in his left looks across to Abraham on the left, who wears a blue and light purple jerkin and a soft ruby hat. He points upwards to indicate to his son that they must ascend the hill. On the right are fragments of a murrey building. Further up the hill Isaac on the left climbs a stony path carrying the bunch of faggots on his shoulder. He wears a blue tunic with yellow collar and blue hose and follows his father Abraham. He is cut off at the waist and wears a white mantle with blue and yellow sleeves, blue hose and ruby boots. He carries a sword in his right hand. In the background green and blue trees and yellow-stain plants are seen. Along the bottom is part of a blackletter inscription, probably from this window: 'p(ro)piciet(ur) : /deus /'. ³¹ White glass, blue, murrey and green pot-metal glass and flashed ruby, with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. c.1533. Panels are fragmentary, particularly top half of 2a. Servant on left has lost head and body is patched with medieval fragments. Figure of man on right has lost top part of head; area between figures very disturbed and patched. Body of Abraham on left patched with fragments including a piece of plated 15th-c drapery. Tunic of Isaac in 3a patched above belt and figure of Abraham continued in lost 4a. ³² Panel patched top and bottom right. Some paint loss and many repair leads.
h 1.99m, w 0.545m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05720, 05722 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003188, 003194); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

4a. Kneeling donor, possibly Sibilla, Duchess of Jülich and Berg, with saint. A richly-dressed lady kneels facing to sinister before an altar covered with a purple cloth. She wears a pot-yellow robe decorated with a large diaper pattern, with wide sleeves, slit at the front and with fur trimmings and wide fur collar with jewelled decoration. She has a veil and a turban-like headgear. ³³ Behind stands a bearded and nimbed saint wearing a white mantle with scalloped yellow-stain border over a green robe and a ruby hat with broad purple turned-up peak. He places his right hand on the donor’s shoulder and holds a staff of some kind in his left. White glass and yellow and purple pot-metal glass and flashed ruby, with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. Cologne work from church of monastery of Mariawald, window nII?. 1505? Head of donor inside-out, cracked and plated and from another Mariawald figure; lower part of headgear patched with medieval glass. Saint’s left hand missing and patched with old glass and background at top made up from fragments of white and murrey glass of uncertain date. Severe external corrosion on saint’s head and a few other pieces; some paint loss and several repair leads.
h 1.60m, w 0.545m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05712, 05723, 05711 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003195, 003199, 003192); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

5a. Fragments, including an early-19th-c roundel, perhaps by Yarington and fragments of late-19th-c glass. ³⁴
h 0.335m, w 0.56m
NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05712, 05723, 05711 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003195, 003199, 003192); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

1b . Fragments, including part of two angels with budded border as in 1a, but facing to sinister, white glass with trace-line and yellow stain, c.1520-40; also fragments of micro-architecture probably from this window, white glass with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain, 1533?; part of crowned and nimbed female head facing to sinister and part of tunic with scalloped hem and segmented belt, white glass with trace-line, matt wash, relieving and yellow stain, 15th-c; parts of two roundels with geometric patterns; ³⁵ part of a head facing to dexter in profile against a wall, white glass with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain, 16th-c. Along the bottom are a true lovers’ knot with initials, perhaps A D; fragments of blackletter inscription of varying size: 'et';' /llu(m) '; 'in h/' (above), 'Rot/' below; '/kith/'. Some paint loss and external corrosion.
h 0.68m, w 0.54m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05717, 05720, 05719 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003193, 003188, 003196); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

2-3b.

2-3b . Part of Crucifixion. A soldier stands bottom left, wearing a murrey gown over a green tunic with purple hose and ruby shoes; on his head is a soft hat with turned-up scalloped peak. He stands on stony ground, looking up at Christ on the Cross (now missing) and crosses his arms behind his back, holding a dagger. Above him on the left is a halberd and a horses head, with broad ruby halter pulled by a hand so that the horse twists its head upwards. In 3b two soldiers in full armour with visors stand on the right facing to sinister, while a man in a murrey turban on the right turns and looks up to sinister, holding the halter of a horse with a thick braded mane; part of a third horse’s head is seen in the middle. At the top a man with a hooked nose rides a horse to dexter, wearing rich yellow-stain, ruby and white garments, a light blue bonnet and ruby hat. To the right a face looks up to sinister and points and on the left a soldier in armour and two other men look to sinister while a fourth faces forward. White glass, blue, purple, murrey and green pot-metal glass and flashed ruby, with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. The right side of the lower panel is patched with medieval fragments including micro-architecture probably from this window, a blue and ruby boot (?), stony ground, and a blue shoe, white drapery, green glass and two pieces with blackletter inscription, all 1533? The lower inscription was read by M. R. James as 'Adve(rsus) ' (above) Hebreos (below). ³⁶ The upper one is in four lines: '/per(us) i(N) ffra(illegible)/ '(top); 'q…. varia' (second); voce (third); 'mamie' (bottom). ³⁷ All 1533? Along the bottom are fragments of blackletter inscription: 'M'; 'xxx'; ' lle./.mo'(upside-down), 15th-16th-c.
h 1.99m, w 0.545m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05720, 05722 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003188, 003194); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

4b . St Christopher carrying the Christ Child. The bearded saint stands with his feet in a river facing to sinister and leaning on a forked staff in his left hand as he carries the nimbed Christ Child, who blesses with his right hand and carries an orb in the left, on his shoulder. St Christopher wears a white mantle with scalloped yellow-stain hem and ruby shirt tied at the waist. Rather incongruously they are set against a white (?) fringed hanging in a church with a leaded window. On the left is an architectural frame with base and capital and arch at the top. At St Christopher’s feet is an heraldic achievement with shield, helm, crest and mantling. The shield bears quarterly 1 and 4 or a fesse dancetty gules, for Manderscheid, 2 and 3 or a lion rampant sable in fesse a label of five of the first, for Blankenheim. The tournament helm is contourné to dexter, the mantling or and argent and the crest two tufts of peacock feathers proper. ³⁸ White glass and blue and yellow pot-metal glass and flashed ruby, with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. Cologne work from church of the monastery of Mariawald, window sIV. 1506. Figures are patched with ruby, blue and murrey glass; lozenge of intruded fragments above orb; down right side is fillet of glass made up of fragments including side-shafting. Piece of mantling to right of shield plated. Some paint loss and several repair leads.
h 1.60m, w 0.545m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05712, 05723, 05711 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003195, 003199, 003192); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

5b. Shield of the Five Wounds. The shield bears azure a wounded heart gules between a dexter and sinister hand, and a dexter and sinister foot couped argent, saltirewise. c.1520-c.1540?. Set on fragments of late-19th-c glass.
h 0.42m, w 0.545m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05712, 05723, 05711 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003195, 003199, 003192); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

1c . A spray of foliage with a pod, set on fragments, set on a made-up oval background of ruby and purple glass with a border of fragments of micro-architecture with yellow stain, the whole surrounded by fragments of foliage. 16th-c. Borders to right and left of foliage border-work, 15th-c but also one quatrefoil motif, 14th-c. Ruby and white medieval fragments at bottom. Oval border, most of side borders and much of foliage surround 19th-c. Some paint loss.
h 0.675m, w 0.545m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05718, 05717, 05720, 05719 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003198, 003193, 003188, 003196); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

2c . A scene from the Life of St Barbara: ³⁹ St Barbara says farewell to Origen’s colleague (?). The nimbed St Barbara stands on the left in a country landscape with blue sky wearing a white mantle and blue robe with a coronet and cauls on her head. On the right stands a man in a purple gown, murrey hat and green hose talking to her. ⁴⁰ White glass and pot purple, murrey and green glass with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. Cologne work, possibly from the Charterhouse in Cologne. ⁴¹ c.1500-1510. Sky patched with medieval fragments and area between heads very broken with many repair leads. Moderate paint loss. Panel made up to size at sides with fragments of micro-architecture and landscape, one ruby piece, all 16th-c, and one piece of 14th-c canopy. At base is strip with fragments of blackletter inscription: 'et pr/'; ⁴² '/es Landon'; ⁴³ 'Me'.
h 0.67m, w 0.55m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05720 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003188); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

3c . Canopy Top set on fragments. A finialed ogee arch set against a stepped wall with two windows over a ribbed vault. White glass with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. 1533? Below and above are parts of further micro-architecture showing finials and leaded windows and at the sides are other fragments. A few fragments inside-out. Slight paint loss and a few repair leads. At the top is a panel of Renaissance architecture with the date 1610.
h 1.02m, w 0.55m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05720, 05721 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003188, 003189); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

4c. . Apostle. The nimbed and bearded saint stands facing to dexter holding a ruby book in his left hand and wearing a white mantle over a blue robe. White glass and yellow and blue pot-metal glass and flashed ruby, with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. Cologne work from church of monastery of Mariawald. 1505-6. ⁴⁴ Background, archway and pilasters are confections, using medieval German glass and new glass. Figure is cut down on left and may have held an attribute in now missing right hand. Arms on shield in leaded window are incomplete and indecipherable, but belong to Mariawald glass. Some paint loss and a few repair leads.
h 1.805, w 0.55m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05709, 05710, 05715, 05721, 05712 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003202, 003200, 003187, 003189, 003195); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

5c . . Fragments, late-19th-c, as 5a.
h 0.335m, w 0.55m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05710, 05725, 05709, 05712 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003200, 003191, 003202, 003195); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

1d. Fragments, including top half of small angel as in 1a; two roundels with geometric patterns, part of small male figure, micro-architecture from this window, white glass with trace-line, stipple shading, matt wash, relieving and yellow stain. 1533? Part of inverted female face, 15th-c. Along the bottom are fragments of blackletter inscription:' /anis'; 'Orate'; ' ens '(?), 15th-c or 16th-c, and a true-lovers’ knot with initials W C, 16th-c.
h 0.685m, w 0.545m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05718, 05720, 05719 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003198, 003188, 003196); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

2-3d.

2-3d. . Part of Crucifixion. In 2d the bearded Joseph of Arimathea stands on the left facing to sinister dressed in a ruby mantle with blue robe and purple cap. He drops coins into the right hand of a man opposite who carries a rope and ladder to take Jesus from the Cross. ⁴⁵ The man wears a white tunic and has tools at his belt. In 3a are parts of several figures, including a man on the right with a ruby hat, and two horses. At bottom is part of a blackletter inscription: 'et vitriaria fecit anno d(o)m(ini) m(ilesimo) '. White glass with blue and purple pot-metal glass and flashed ruby with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. 1533? A strip of fragments at the top includes micro-architecture and part of a plaque with an inscription in blackletter: '/libertino(rum) ' (above); '/rene(n)siu(m) '. ⁴⁶ Large number of intruded fragments including micro-architecture from this window, some illegible blackletter, 15th-c micro-architecture and plain blue glass.
h 2.01m w 0.545m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05721, 05716 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003188, 003190); G. King & Son (col. transparency, inv. no. 011164); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

4d. Part of Last Judgement. Against a blue sky with a double yellow-stain rainbow the bearded St John the Baptist kneels with yellow nimbus facing to dexter with hands together, wearing a white mantle with yellow scalloped hem over a brown robe. Above an angel in a white surplus and with white and ruby wings blows a long curved trumpet; a horizontal sword with a ruby blade pointing to dexter overlaps the angel. On the upper rainbow hangs ruby drapery. Cologne work from church of monastery of Mariawald. 1513-16. ⁴⁷ Blue background patched to left of angel; severe external corrosion on head of St John, moderate on drapery; some repair leads.
h 1.23m w 0.545m (original panel 0.495m wide)
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05725, 05709, 05713 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003191, 003202, 003201); G. King & Son, col. transparency, inv. no. 011165); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

5d. Arma Christi shield. On a ruby ground a cross on which are placed the crown of thorns and two scourges. The spear and staff with sponge are in saltire in front and to left and right are pincers and hammer. White and flashed ruby glass with trace-line, stipple shading, matt wash, relieving and yellow stain. c.1520-c.1540? Parts of ruby field may be new. Several repair leads. Set on fragments of late-19th-c glass.
h 0.415m, w 0.54
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05709, 05713 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003202, 003201); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

1e. Fragments, including top half of small angel as in 1a, but facing to sinister, and parts of another; one nearly whole and one fragmentary geometric roundel as 1d; micro-architecture from this window, and a piece of 15th-c canopy. At bottom, pieces of blackletter inscription: 'Gybbon', 'domino', and one illegible piece of relieved lettering. White glass with trace-line, matt wash, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. Some paint loss on micro-architecture.
h 0.655m, w 0.55m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05718, 05720 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003198, 003188); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

2-3e .

2-3e. . Fragments from the Raising of the Brazen Serpent and donor panel. At the bottom of 2e are exiguous remains of a donor panel. Part of a kneeling figure facing to dexter wearing a purple mantle is seen on a chequered floor in a brick-built interior framed on the right by a Renaissance pilaster. Over the figure part of a scroll with blackletter text is seen: ' /re mei', perhaps from 'miserere mei'. Above is a man sitting on grass in a white, yellow and blue fashionable slashed garment with purple sleeves in the toils of murrey and blue serpents and part of another man bitten on the head by a white snake. ⁴⁸ White and pot blue glass with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. 1533? Seated man has insertion on chest of old glass. Rest of panel fragments of micro-architecture from this window. Two at bottom are parts of small figures. Part of illegible inscription on plaque. ⁴⁹ Along bottom are fragments of blackletter text. The first is 'CCCCC', and belongs with the 'M' in 2d as part of date seen by Blomefield as 1533. However, the next piece with 'xxxiii' for ‘33’ bears different decoration and may not belong with other part of date. ⁵⁰
h 1.97m w 0.55m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05721, 05716 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003188, 003190); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

4e . Saint with kneeling donor, probably Maria, wife of Johann III of Cleve and Berg. A lady in a richly brocaded dress, hairnet and veil, with necklace and a chain around her neck, kneels facing to dexter against a blue diapered background before an altar covered in a ruby cloth. Behind her stands a monk saint, who has tentatively been identified as Robert of Molesme, in a white habit resting his left hand on her shoulder and holding a wooden (?) object in his right. ⁵¹ At base is a relieved blackletter inscription: 'M/ zo kate(n)elle(n)bog(e)n A(nno) 1513'. ⁵² White glass and blue pot metal glass and flashed ruby with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. Cologne work from church of monastery of Mariawald, west window?. 1513. Bottom piece of ruby altar cloth new, also piece at the bottom of mantle; object held by saint extended to male T-square. Purple capital and background above head may not be original; arch above head filled with fragments of white drapery. Saint has plated head and made-up headgear. Background above blue diaper composite including original and modern architectural frame and 16th-c blue drapery. Widened by fillet of fragments on right and left. Some paint loss and a few repair leads.
h 1.145m, w 0.56 (original panel 0.495m wide)
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05709, 05713 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003202, 003201); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

5e . Fragments, including an early-19th-c roundel, perhaps by Yarington and fragments of late-19th-c glass.
h 0.33m, w 0.56m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05721, 05725, 05709, 05713 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003189, 003191, 003202, 003201); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

A1 . St Stephen. The nimbed and tonsured saint stands against a plain blue background on a stony pedestal facing to sinister holding a book in his right hand a cloth on which there is a stone in his left, vested as a deacon with ruby dalmatic fringed in yellow stain and alb with yellow stain apparel. At the base of the light are plants. White glass and flashed ruby with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. 1533? Mostly new, except left hand and book, part of alb, possibly two pieces of blue background and pedestal with plants; there is a modern fillet of white glass and a modern yellow-stain flower in the foil. A few repair leads.
h 0.77m, w 0.22m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05711, 05712 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003192, 003195); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

A2 . St Apollonia. The nimbed saint stands facing to dexter holding a tooth in a pair of pincers in her right hand and a palm branch in the left. She wears an ermine mantle with yellow-stain hem over a white robe with high girdle and a band of yellow-stain decoration; on her long hair is a turban-like headdress. Setting as A1. White glass with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. 1533? New except for head, right hand and symbol, drapery below right arms and at bottom, pedestal and flowers. A little paint loss and a few repair leads.
h 0. m, w 0.215
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05711, 05712 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003192, 003195); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

A3-4 .

A3-4 . Angels. 19th-c.

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A5 . Bishop Saint. The nimbed and mitred saint stands facing to sinister blessing with his right hand and holding a crozier in his left, wearing mass white vestments decorated with yellow stain. Setting as A1. Technique as A2. 1533? Blue background new, also top foil, part of face and bottom left drapery piece; some paint loss and several repair leads.
h 0.775m w 0.22m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05712, 05725 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003195, 003191); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

A6 . Archbishop Saint. The nimbed and mitred saint stands facing to sinister blessing with his right hand and holding a cross staff in his left, wearing mass white vestments decorated with yellow stain. Setting as A1. Technique as A2. 1533? Blue background, three small pieces of drapery and bottom point new; a little paint loss and some repair leads.
h 0.77m, w 0.22m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05712, 05725 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003195, 003191); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

A7–8.

A7-8. Angels. 19th-c.

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A9. St Catherine. The nimbed and crowned saint stands facing to sinister holding an upright sword in both hands and wearing an ermine tippet and white mantle with scalloped yellow-stain hem and lining over a white robe. Bottom left is a large wheel. Setting and technique as A2. 1533? All new except one piece of drapery centre left, wheel, pedestal and plants; a little paint loss and a few repair leads.
h 0.77m, w 0.225m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05725 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003191); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

A10 . . St Lawrence. The nimbed and tonsured saint stands facing to dexter holding an upright gridiron in his right hand and a book in his left, vested as a deacon with ruby dalmatic fringed in yellow stain. Setting and technique as A1. 1533? Blue background, top foil, lower part of alb, right hand and three pieces of ruby new; lower part of alb, which has no apparel, may be new. Paint loss on gridiron; a few repair leads.
h 0.775m, w 0.225m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05725 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003191); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

B1–5.

B1-5 . Eyelets with sunburst. White glass with matt wash, relieving and yellow stain. 1533? B1 truncated at top; B2 corroded; a little paint loss.
CVMA database image NMR BB89/05715 (1987, col. prints, inv. no. 003187,); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).
h 0.10m, w 0.10m

C1. Fragments, including some made up to form an angel, facing to sinister, wearing coronet, ermine tippet and feathered tights. ⁵³ White glass and pot light blue with trace-line, stipple shading, relieving and yellow stain. Also micro-architecture, blue and murrey glass. mid-15th-c. Modern clear fillet. Paint loss and exterior corrosion.
h 0.77m, w 0.22m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05711 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003192); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

C2–3.

C2-3 . Seraphim on wheels. 20th-c.

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C4 . Fragments, including parts of a feathered angel, white drapery and blue glass and part of glory. Technique and date as C1. Blue glass and two pieces of leg new. Modern clear fillet. Some paint loss and corrosion.
h 0.73m, w 0.215
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05711 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003192); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

C5–6.

C5-6 . St Michael and angel. 20th-c.

C7. Fragments, including parts of a figure in light blue armour and face, perhaps an angel of the order Powers. Technique and date as C1. Blue background and right leg new. Modrn clear fillet. Some paint loss and corrosion.
h 0.76m, w 0.22m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05725 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003191); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

C8–9 .

C8-9. Seraphim on wheels. 20th-c

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C10. Fragments, including parts of a feathered angel and one playing a pipe or recorder. Also blue cloud, part of glory and a corroded roundel. Technique and date as C1. Blue background and one piece of feathers new. Modern plain fillet. Paint loss and corrosion, especially top of pipe-player’s head.
h 0.73m, w 0.23m
CVMA database images NMR BB89/05715, 05725 (1987, col. prints, inv. nos. 003187, 003191); D. King (2008/9); M. Dixon (2008).

2b . Arms of Henry VIII impaling Queen Jane Seymour. The royal arms quarterly 1 and 4 azure three fleurs-de-lis or, for France, 2 and 3, gules three lions passant gardant or, for England, impaling quarterly of six: 1 or on a pile gules between six fleurs-de-lis azure three lions passant gardant or, 2 gules two wings conjoined in lure or, for Seymour, 3 vairy, for Beauchamp of Hache, 4 argent three demi-lions rampant gules, for Stiny, 5 party per bend argent and gules three roses bendwise counterchanged, for MacWilliams, 6 argent on a bend gules three leopards heads or. The shield has green foliage decoration at the top corners and green and purple at the bottom centre. The argent fields have a painted diaper and the azure ones a relieved pattern. The background at the top is painted with a knobbly pattern and the shield is set within a beaded circle and the blue garter with the motto in yellow upper case letters 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE'. Above is a closed crown. The garter is decorated with a relieved cross-hatched lozenge pattern and the lettering and points are abraded from the blue flash. The lions of England on the dexter impalement and the leopards’ faces on the dexter impalement are abraded from the ruby flash. White glass, blue, green and purple pot-metal glass and flashed ruby and blue with trace-line, matt wash, relieving, abrasion and yellow stain. 1536-7. The top piece of blue in the royal arms has been renewed as has the central lion on the pile, the lower fleur-de-lis on the fourth quarter of the royal arms and the upper piece of the argent field of the sixth quarter of the Seymour arms. The knobbly pattern at the top of the background may have extended to the rest, which is now modern white glass. Parts of the beaded circle have been renewed and others patched with fragments of old glass. About half of the garter is new. There is some internal corrosion on the heraldry and a few repair leads.
Measurements not available
CVMA database image NMR BB89/05714 (1987, col. print, inv. no. 003204); D. King (2008); M. Dixon (2008).

. Arms of Henry VIII, a pair with the arms in nVI. The royal arms quarterly 1 and 4 azure three fleurs-de-lis or, for France, 2 and 3, gules three lions passant gardant or, for England. The shield has green foliage decoration at the top corners and bottom centre and purple top centre. The azure field of the first quarter has a relieved foliage diaper and the shield is set within a beaded circle and the blue garter with the motto in yellow upper case letters 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE'. Above is a closed crown. The garter is decorated with a relieved cross-hatched lozenge pattern and the lettering and points are abraded from the blue flash. The lions of England are abraded from the ruby flash. White glass, blue and green pot-metal glass and flashed ruby and blue with trace-line, matt wash, relieving, abrasion and yellow stain. 1536-7. Parts of beaded circle new; azure field of fourth quarter replaced by old blue glass; part of motto on left replaced (blue glass not abraded, so yellow stain shows as green). Several cracks and repair leads.
Measurements not available
CVMA database image NMR BB89/05726 (1987, col. print, inv. no. 003203); D. King (2008); M. Dixon (2008).

Footnotes

29.

In the division of panels in the main lights the five German panels have been split into two panels, the bottom one including some of the original glazing of this window. The window has been numbered here with the German and original glass in separate panels. Return to context

30.

These are from Acts 6:3 ‘These are from Acts 6:3 ‘Considerate ergo, fratres, viros ex vobis boni testimonii septem, plenos Spiritu Sancto et sapientia, quos constituamus super hoc opus.’ This is part of the story of St Stephen’ (Authorised Version: ‘Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business’.).This is part of the story of St Stephen. Return to context

31.

See the introduction for the more complete version. Return to context

32.

See the introduction for details of what may have been above. Return to context

33.

Wolff-Wintrich 1998-2002, p. 247, describes her dress as of the newest fashion c. 1500. Return to context

34.

The style of the late-19th-c fragments used to fill the heads of the lights in this window suggests that they are part of the glazing of that period made for the tracery lights of this window which was partly destroyed by bomb damage in 1942. Return to context

35.

More complete versions are seen in 1d of this window. Return to context

36.

This is from the story of St Stephen in Acts 6: 1: ‘In diebus illis, crescente numero discipulorum, factum est murmur Græcorum adversus Hebræos, eo quod despicerentur in ministerio quotidiano viduæ eorum.’ (Authorised Version: ‘And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily administration’). Return to context

37.

These readings are open to some doubt. Return to context

38.

See the introduction for a discussion of these arms and the provenance of the panel. Return to context

39.

The St Barbara panel is attached to part of the canopy top above, but is catalogued separately here. Return to context

40.

See the introduction for the provenance and iconography of this panel. Return to context

41.

Wayment 1988, pp. 31-44. Return to context

42.

Possibly from the Life of St Stephen, Acts 6:5; ‘Et placuit sermo coram omni multitudine. Et elegerunt Stephanum, virum plenum fide et Spiritu Sancto, et Philippum, et Prochorum, et Nicanorem, et Timonem, et Parmenam, et Nicolaum advenam Antiochenum’ (Authorised Version: ‘And the saying pleased the whole multitude; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.’) Return to context

43.

John Landon is suggested as a donor of a window at Taverham in glass of c.1460-c.1470. See the online catalogue entry for Taverham. A man of that name was made free of the city of Norwich in 1465-6, having been apprenticed to Henry Stalon, barker. L’Estrange, 1888, p. 128. Return to context

44.

See the introduction for a discussion of the date, iconography and design. Return to context

45.

The depiction of the transaction is unusual. In Mark 15:46 writes: ‘Ioseph autem mercatus sindonem et deponens eum involvit sindone’ (Authorised Version: ‘And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen …’. The payment mentioned here does not appear to be for the linen, but for help with the Deposition. Return to context

46.

Part of Acts 6.9: ‘Surrexerunt autem quidam de synagoga quae appelatur Libertinorum et Cyrenensium et Alexandrinorum et eorum qui erant a Cilicia et Asia disputantes cum Stephano’ (Authorised Version: ‘Then there arose certain of the synagogue, of the Libertines and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen’. Another fragment from a window depicting the life of St Stephen. Return to context

47.

See the introduction for a discussion of the original location of this panel at Mariawald. Return to context

48.

The slashed fashion (Schlitzmode) was seen in early 16th-c Germany as a marker of decadence by some and of high fashion by others. See Zitzlsperger 2007, pp. 106-7. Return to context

49.

From the Life of St Stephen window. See introduction. Return to context

50.

See introduction for discussion of this point. Return to context

51.

Müller 1905, p. 53, makes this identification, followed by Wolff-Wintrich 1998-2002, p. 246. St Robert founded the Cistercian order and the monasteries of Molesme and Cîteaux and would have been a suitable saint to have been chosen here. However, he was rarely depicted and was usually identified as an abbot. The object held by him does not correspond with any of his usual attributes, but is partly restored (Braun 1943, p. 632). Return to context

52.

This is part of a longer inscription and has been assumed to identify to donor as Maria, wife of Johann III of Kleve and Berg. Johann gave the west window at Mariawald in 1513. However, it is possible that the inscription does not belong with the figures. Return to context

53.

The angel’s head is in the style of the Norwich, St Peter Mancroft Passion Master; see King 2006, pp. cxxxii-cxxxvii. Return to context

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