Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . k and represents justabout the same stage in development. William ofWykehams next great work was the founding ofWinchester Winchester College in 1387, and in what remainsege. ^£ .^^ glass the hand of Thomas can be clearly , alas I in the early nineteenth century theytook out the old glass and substituted moderncopies; it was their method of restoration in thosedays. The old glass seems to have been theperquisite of the glazier, and three of the lights,after various peregrinations,—spending eight yearsin a whidow of St. Marys, Shrew
Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . k and represents justabout the same stage in development. William ofWykehams next great work was the founding ofWinchester Winchester College in 1387, and in what remainsege. ^£ .^^ glass the hand of Thomas can be clearly , alas I in the early nineteenth century theytook out the old glass and substituted moderncopies; it was their method of restoration in thosedays. The old glass seems to have been theperquisite of the glazier, and three of the lights,after various peregrinations,—spending eight yearsin a whidow of St. Marys, Shrewsbury,—havefound their way to South Kensington Museumwhere they may still be seen. In style they arevery like the north, west, and south windows atNew College, and quite obviously by the samehand, though perhaps the canopies, at least in onecase, show a very slight progress towards the regularPerpendicular type. The material seems to me much PLATE XXXVIII KNEELING DONORS, FROM ACTS OF MERCY WINDOW,ALL SAINTS, NORTH STREET, YORK Fifteenth Century. LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND 209 the same as at New College, but for some reason thecolom*ed glass is much more pitted by the weatherand consequently obscured, though the white, perhapsfrom a different shop, is in splendid preservation. The great west window of Winchester Cathedral Winchestercontains fragments and a few whole figures of very *^ ^ ^^ •similar work, and there are others in the side windowsof the nave. William of Wykehams will, made in1403, leaves money for the glazing of the Cathedralwindows beginning from the west at the first windowof the new work done by him, which sounds as ifthe west end had been already glazed. Indeed thefragments there are more like the eastern windows(the earliest, if I am right) in New College ante-chapel, while in the fragments that remain in the sidewindows of the nave the later hand can be traced,though the tendency in the canopies of these is toassimilategradually to the regular
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