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Founder's window

Founder's window

 

 

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.

 

Four Evangelists - Bourges Cathedral

 

 

This window in Bourges Cathedral dates from 1460s and depict the four evangelists. In the tracery panels is the adoration of the Virgin.

 

 

Four Latin Fathers of the Church - Bourges Cathedral

 

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, 5th earl of Gloucester

 

 

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

 

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

 

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 Sainte-Chapelle

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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

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.

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