Index of Medieval all

Seven days of Creation

Seven days of Creation

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 top register of the window illustrate the seven days of creation.

 

Great Malvern Priory

Great Malvern Priory

A substantial body of medieval stained glass survives at Great Malvern Priory, although its condition and completeness vary considerably from window to window. Several major fifteenth-century windows remain largely intact, most notably the Magnificat Window, the Founder’s Window, and the glazing of the Lady Chapel. Elsewhere, survival is more fragmentary: the great east window, though once a dominant feature of the church, now survives largely in dispersed panels and fragments rather than as a complete scheme.

 

 

This fifteenth century stained glass panel depicts William the Conqueror , in 1085, giving a charter to the monk Aldwin. It can be found in the north wall clerestory window of the chancel in Great Malvern Priory.

 

 

Adoration of the Magi (cell 39)

Adoration of the Magi (cell 39)

Cell 39 on the second floor of the San Marco convent was reserved for Cosimo de Medici. The fresco on the wall is the Adoration of the Magi by Benozzo Gozzoli .

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.

 

John Cressy Tomb - Dodford Northamptonshire

John Cressy Tomb - Dodford Northamptonshire

Alabaster tomb of Sir John Cressy (d1445) Dodford, Northamptonshire. The sides of the tomb chest have angels holding shields, and the offices he held in France are listed around the top edge.

John Dycson Tomb - Yelvertoft Northamptonshire.

John Dycson Tomb - Yelvertoft Northamptonshire.

At Yelvertoft Northamptonshire is the tomb of John Dycson, who served as rector of Yelvertoft from 1439 to 1445, is a fine example of 15th-century English funerary art in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The monument consists of an alabaster effigy resting upon a low tomb chest, its sides richly decorated with panels of quatrefoils and other intricate tracery characteristic of the period.

Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick

Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick

This is the tomb of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick. who died at Rouen on the 30th April 1439. His will made an endowment to the collegiate church of St Mary, Warwick, money to build the chantry chapel at St Mary's, and gifts to Tewkesbury Abbey.

 

'Wakeham' Cenotaph - Tewkesbury Abbey

'Wakeham' Cenotaph - Tewkesbury Abbey

Attributed to John Wakeham (d1549), the last abbot of Tewkesbury, the 'Wakeham' Cenotaph, actually mid fifteenth century and pre-dates the abbot by about 100 years. The effigy is a gisant as a decomposing corpse and the canopy was modelled on the throne of the House of Lords.

Life of Saint Taurin 3

 

 

15th century stained glass depicting events in the life of St Taurin and the discovery of his relics by St Landulfe.

Effigy of Priest - Radway, Warwickshire

Effigy of Priest - Radway, Warwickshire

This mid-fifteenth-century effigy depicts a priest shown vested for the celebration of Mass, carved in low relief and set beneath an architectural recess.

 

 

Life of Saint Taurin 2

 

This mid 15th century window in the church of Saint-Taurin, Evreux, contains six scenes telling part of the legend of his life. This first panel tells the part of the legend where he resurrected a girl that had been burnt to death by a devil, on being brought back to life she was apparently unmarked.

 

 

Life of Saint Taurin 1

 

 

The abbey church of Saint-Taurin in Evreux contains three mid 15th century stained glass windows in the apse that tell the story of Saint Taurin, the first bishop of Evreux.

 

 

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.

Resurrection etc - Evreux Cathedral

This window was donated to the Cathedral by King Louis XI of France in 1467-1469. It's eight panels depicts events from the Resurrection to the Last Judgement of Christ.

 

 

Death of the Virgin - Lady Chapel Evreux

 

 

This stained glass window (1467-1469) in the south wall of the Lady Chapel at Evreux Cathedral, depicts the Death of the Virgin Mary in the upper registers.

 

 

Pages