Gothic
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.
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.
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.










