. Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France. set in grisaille ofvery early fourteenth century, encircled with aborder consisting of the arms of France andCastille. In the ninth chapel are nine small coloured figurepanels under canopies, on grisaille, forming a bandof colour across the lio-hts. In the right-hand licrhtis J^irolaus (JTartiinal, mostly in yellow pot-metal,holding a yellow window in his hand as donor. Hewas Nicolas Aide de Nonancourt, who becameCardinal in 1294 and died in 1299. W
. Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France. set in grisaille ofvery early fourteenth century, encircled with aborder consisting of the arms of France andCastille. In the ninth chapel are nine small coloured figurepanels under canopies, on grisaille, forming a bandof colour across the lio-hts. In the right-hand licrhtis J^irolaus (JTartiinal, mostly in yellow pot-metal,holding a yellow window in his hand as donor. Hewas Nicolas Aide de Nonancourt, who becameCardinal in 1294 and died in 1299. Westlakedraws attention to the similarity in style betweenthese windows and those in Merton College Chapel. The next three chapels contain very pleasing littlesubjects of the fourteenth century. The line of chapels is continued beyond the Southtransept all round the nave on both sides. Mostof these chapels contain figures of the early part ofthe fourteenth century, but some are assigned to thethirteenth. In the second chapel west of the southtransept are figures of Christ and the Virgin, andfour Apostles and Jean de Meulent, Canon i:\ RELX Fu;i re in the Choik. EVREUX 93 In the South transept the first window on theeast side in the lofty clerestory contains the por-trait of Louis the Eleventh and the Vierge dEvreux. There are Rose windows in both transepts. Theone in the South transept is filled with sixteenth-century glass, representing the Coronation of theVirgin, with figures of the Apostles below. TheRose in the North transept depicts the Last Judg-ment, with similar figures in strong colour withwhite canopies and some yellow stain. When at Evreux the church of St Taurin shouldbe visited. In the choir are seven windows—fourof the fifteenth century, one of late fourteenth withtwo modern windows, the second on each fifteenth-century windows have no bordersexcept the white shafts of the canopies. The win-dow on the north, to the left on
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