This window by Hardman & Co. illustrates the first of Christ's Miracles.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Tyria
Species: T. jacobaeae
Common name: Cinnabar moth.
Main panel of this Hardman window illustrates Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount.
Hardman & Co representation of the Nativity
A worldwide family of solitary bees commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, due to the material that they use to build their nests.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Netelia
Species: N. testacea
Tenthredinidae is the largest sawfly family. It has 6000 species worldwide, with 900 European species and some 400 that are found in the British Isles. In size they range from 2.5mm to 15mm in length, and are either black or brownish yellow in colour.
Originally the late medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln. By 1600 it had passed to Sir Thomas Cecil, son of Queen Elizabeth's chief minister, who converted it into an almshouse for twelve poor 'bedesmen' over 30 years old and two women (over 45), all free of lunacy, leprosy or the French pox.
This remarkable window (1490-1505), rediscovered packed away in 1932, forms the lower section of the great east window at Stanford-on-Avon. It is one of the most striking survivals of late medieval royal propaganda in stained glass, created to celebrate the accession and legitimacy of Henry VII and the founding of the Tudor dynasty.
Discovered in 1887 this C12 square bowled font has carved scenes from the life of Crist on all four sides.
