"Adoration of the Magi" by Heaton, Butler & Baynes (1869).
Stained Glass
There are two churches in the town of Evreux that contain extensive amounts of medieval stained glass a) the cathedral of Notre-Dame, and b) the abbey church of Saint-Taurin.
Medieval stained glass at Evreux Cathedral.
This window in the St Anne Chapel, Malvern Priory, has twelve scenes depicting the Creation story and the Fall. It is dated to between 1440-1450 and was probably the gift of Isabel Despenser and Richard de Beauchamp, 13th earl of Warwick.
The four panels in the bottom register of the window illustrates the expulsion from Eden.
Faith, Hope, and Charity by Heaton, Butler & Baynes (1896). Staverton.
Ford Madox Brown was born on 16 April 1821 in Calais to English parents, and received his artistic training at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp, where the rigorous academic tradition left a lasting imprint on his draftsmanship and compositional discipline. Though Brown spent much of his early life moving between the Continent and England, he established himself in London during the 1840s as a painter of historical and moral subjects.
High up in the clerestory of the north wall of the chancel, are a sequence of medieval stained glass panels documenting the legend and founding of the priory at Great Malvern.
This window in Bourges Cathedral dates from 1460s and depict the four evangelists. In the tracery panels is the adoration of the Virgin.
This four-light window depicts the Four Great Fathers of the Western Church—St Ambrose, St Jerome, St Augustine, and Pope Gregory the Great—framed beneath an elaborate Gothic canopy. In the tracery lights above unfolds a Last Judgement scene, in which Christ appears in glory surrounded by angels and the resurrected dead, reinforcing the doctrinal authority of the Fathers through the lens of divine revelation.
This seems to have been a major company in the last half of the C19. Nearly every church I visited in the Loir-et-Cher had examples of their work.
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