Evreux - France
There are two churches in the town of Evreux that contain extensive amounts of medieval stained glass a) the cathedral of Notre-Dame, and b) the abbey church of Saint-Taurin.
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Evreux Cathedral
Medieval stained glass at Evreux Cathedral.
Expulsion from Eden
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.
Founders' window
The so-called Founders’ Window at Great Malvern Priory is one of the most important narrative glazing schemes to survive in the church. Set high in the north clerestory ⓘ of the chancel, the window is composed of four lights arranged in two registers, presenting a visual history of the foundation of the priory that combines legend, royal authority, and aristocratic patronage.
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.
French Virgin and Child - Salisbury Cathedral
This wooden sculpture of the Virgin and Child, dating to the fourteenth century (most probably the mid to late 1300s, though sometimes described as early fifteenth century), is of Continental—likely French—origin.
Gérard de Conchy - Amiens Cathedral, France
This tomb commemorates Gérard de Conchy ⓘ, Bishop of Amiens from 1247 until his death in 1257. The monument consists of a recumbent effigy carved in stone, representing the bishop vested in liturgical garments and wearing a mitre, his head resting on a cushion in the conventional manner of 13th-century episcopal tomb sculpture.
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.
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