Stained Glass

Fournier, Julien Studios - Tour

walwyn Sat, 09/12/2009 - 10:45

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.

Galland and Gibelin

walwyn Mon, 05/07/2012 - 19:52

In 1893 the painter Jacque Galland and glassmaker Espirt Gibelin won a competition to create 10 stained glass windows, at Orleans Cathedral, depicting the life of Joan of Arc.

Gilbert de Clare, 5th earl of Gloucester

walwyn Fri, 02/10/2012 - 19:43

Gilbert de Clare, 5th earl of Gloucester, and his father Richard de Clare, were among the 25 barons who pledged to enforce the provisions of the Magna Carta, as a result both were excommunicated by Pope Innocent III.

Gilbert de Clare, 7th earl of Gloucester

walwyn Sat, 09/06/2014 - 01:59

Gilbert de Clare (d1295) was the 7th Earl of Gloucester having succeeded to the Earldom in 1262. Gilbert and his brother Thomas first supported Simon de Montfort's rebellion against Henry III, but later changed sides.

Gilbert de Clare, 8th earl of Gloucester

walwyn Sat, 08/25/2012 - 23:23

Gilbert de Clare, 8th earl of Gloucester, was a strong supporter of Edward II and fought with him at the Battle of Bannockburn on the 24th of June 1314 where he was killed aged 23. He was also one of the Lords ordainers that in 1311 ordered the expulsion of his brother-in-law Piers Gaveston who was Edward's favourite.

Glass panels from Saint-Denis

walwyn Sun, 05/30/2010 - 20:54

"Presentation in the Temple" panel originally from Saint-Denis near Paris (c1145).

Glass panels from Sainte-Chapelle

walwyn Sat, 05/29/2010 - 23:12

Originally in la Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité in Paris. This medieval panel (c1245) and others are now in St James Twycross, Leicestershire.

Gloucester Cathedral - East Window

walwyn Sat, 07/19/2014 - 00:22

The east window at Gloucester Cathedral was created as part of the rebuilding of the abbey church of St Peter. Built in the Perpendicular style it was the largest window in Europe. The decorative scheme portrays the Coronation of the Virgin and the glass mostly dates from the 1350s.

Great Malvern Priory

walwyn Thu, 08/18/2011 - 01:51

This fifteenth century stained glass panel depicts William the Conqueror, in 1085, giving a charter to the monk Aldwin. It can be found in the north wall clerestory window of the chancel in Great Malvern Priory.