Northamptonshire

Annunciation - Middleton Cheney

 

Set in the tracery above the three-light window depicting St Anne, the Virgin Mary, and St Elizabeth—designed respectively by Ford Madox Brown (Anne and Elizabeth) and Edward Burne-Jones (central Mary)—this Annunciation scene was designed by William Morris in 1880.

 

 

 

 

Byfield - Holy Cross c1897

Farebrother memorial window by Kempe

 

 

Memorial window, by CE Kempe, dedicated to Reverend Thomas Farebrother (d1896), Mary Anne Farebrother (d1884), and George Farebrother (d1892).

 

 

 

 

 

C13 Coffin Lid with Foliated Cross - Gayton Northamptonshire

 

This finely carved coffin lid features a long-stemmed cross whose arms terminate in deeply incised, curling foliage, a design symbolising both the Cross of Christ and the Tree of Life. The leafy ornament, known as a foliated cross, became popular in the 13th century and is often associated with clerical burials or those of prominent parishioners.

C14th English stained glass fragments - Pattishall Northamptonshire

C14 stained glass fragments

 

This fragmentary but evocative window from Holy Cross Church, Pattishall, preserves elements of a 14th-century English stained glass narrative cycle. The surviving lights depict a kneeling orant figure with hands raised in prayer, and beside it, a group showing Christ with a disciple or saint, set beneath delicately painted Gothic architectural canopies.

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