White marble effigy of Cardinal Jean de la Grange (d1402).
The stained glass windows in the chancel of Tewkesbury Abbey are all from between 1338 and 1340. They were most probably a gift to the Abbey by Eleanor Despenser (nee de Clare) the wife of Hugh Despenser the Younger. Eleanor is thought to be the person depicted in the panel here.
Chartres Cathedral has some of the most beautiful medieval stained glass windows to have survive the upheavals of the last 800 years. The earliest date from the mid 12th century, but most are from the 13th century.
The cathedral of Chartres contains a number of Gothic sculptures. The typmanums above the west porches on the west facade and the decoration on the pillars on the south side are entirely Gothic.
This window (c1260), in the apse of Tours cathedral, contains sixteen scenes from the Annunciation to the Flight into Egypt.
Monuments or memorials to children in English churches were extremely rare until the late 18th and early 19th century. In the 16th century one can find the occassional child tomb amongst the aristocracy, such as that of the The Noble Impe at St Mary's Warwick, but otherwise children rarely appear to have warranted memorials in their own right.
This images of Christ Carrying the Cross is in cell 28 of the San Marco convent.
These wall paintings of Christ in Majesty represent Christ as ruler of the universe. Normally he is in a mandorla and surrounded by other figures and objects. The other figures depicted change from time to time.
[no-glossary]Christ in Majesty[/no-glossary] and the Virgin Enthroned (c1340) Stanford on Avon, Northamptonshire.
This richly animated cycle of polychrome reliefs depicts the episode of Christ Cleansing the Temple (Matthew 21:12–13; Mark 11:15–17; Luke 19:45–46; John 2:13–16). Carved in deep relief and originally conceived as a continuous narrative sequence, the scenes unfold across the west wall of the north transept, drawing the viewer into the crowded precincts of the Temple in Jerusalem.
