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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.

 

 

 

East window Twycross Leicestershire

 

 

French medieval stained glass presented to William IV and then given to Earl Howe, who had it installed in St. James church Twycross Leicestershire.

 

 

 

 

Wall paintings at Burton Dasset

The church of All Saints as Burton Dassett in Warwickshire dates from the early C12 through to C13. The walls were plastered with 'daub', lime, chopped straw and animal hair and over which various wall painting have been executed. At various times over the centuries the paintings have been whitewashed over and replaced with new works. These include from the C13 depiction of the 'Doom' to  highly ornamented texts..

 

Tours Cathedral

 

The stained glass windows in this section are all from the chancel and choir clerestory ⓘ of Saint Gatien's Cathedral in Tours. They all date from the between 1250 and 1300 and are contemporary with the rebuilding of the chancel between 1236-1279. The windows in the apse are the earlier and date between 1250-1260, whilst those in the clerestory were installed in the last part of the 13th century.

 

Childhood of Christ

This window (c1260), in the apse of Tours cathedral, contains sixteen scenes from the Annunciation to the Flight into Egypt.

 

Gérard de Conchy - Amiens Cathedral, France

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.

 

 

 

Bishop Giles de Bridport Tomb - Salisbury Cathedral

Tomb of Bishop Giles de Bridport

This finely carved effigy represents a 13th-century bishop, shown lying in state with hands raised in prayer. The figure is sculpted from dark Purbeck marble ⓘ, a material much used in English cathedrals of the period. The bishop is depicted wearing liturgical vestments, including the mitre and chasuble, and rests beneath an elaborately canopied tomb.

Bishop Walter de Cantelupe. Worcester Cathedral

This mid 13th century tomb of Bishop Walter de Cantelupe (d1266) is made of Purbeck marble ⓘ. The relief of the effigy is more rounded than that of the nearby tomb of his predecessor the bishop of Worcester William de Blois (d1236) which is still in the Romanesque style and shows the development to the more rounded forms of the early Gothic.

Tree of Jesse - Tours Cathedral

 

This late 13th century window, above the choir at Tours cathedral. The 18 panels in the main part of the window depict the Tree of Jesse running up the center of the window, and the childhood of Christ on either side. The panels in the tracery contain representations of Abraham ⓘ and Isaac ⓘ, and an Angel with a Lamb stopping the sacrifice of Isaac.

 

Creation Story - Rouen Cathedral

 

 

The creation story craved in stone in the quatrefoils on either side of the Portail des Libraires at Rouen Cathedral.
 

Adam and Eve - Rouen Cathedral

 

Located on either side of the Portail des Libraires at Rouen Cathedral, these quatrefoil ⓘ sculptures of Adma nd Eve and their expulsion from Eden were created between 1278-1300.

Canons of Loches

 

This window, at Tours cathedral, is dated to the last part of the 13th century, was donated to Tours Cathedral by the Canons of the Collegiate church ⓘ at Loches in commemoration for the Treaty of Paris (1259) between Louis IX of France and Henry III of England.

 

 

Life of Saint Martin Clerestory Window

This window depicting the Life of St Martin is one of the choir clerestory ⓘ windows at Tours Cathedral. The main window consists of some eighteen panels in six registers and is dated to the completion of the just after the rebuilding of the chancel in last part of the 13th century.

 

 

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