. (a) Misericord at Sherborne Abbey.(b) Dripstone Terminal: St. Mary, Beverley. Photographs by the Aiithor and by E. C. Scare. Chapter XIII. Painted Glass. Windows of painted glass are of much later datethan those of coloured or stained glass, for thelast named were used certainly in Byzantine, andpossibly in Roman days. These windows ofstained glass consisted mainly of a mosaic ofcolours, and in character they were probablymuch like the stained glass windows used in Con-stantinople at the present day, the pattern beingformed by the
. (a) Misericord at Sherborne Abbey.(b) Dripstone Terminal: St. Mary, Beverley. Photographs by the Aiithor and by E. C. Scare. Chapter XIII. Painted Glass. Windows of painted glass are of much later datethan those of coloured or stained glass, for thelast named were used certainly in Byzantine, andpossibly in Roman days. These windows ofstained glass consisted mainly of a mosaic ofcolours, and in character they were probablymuch like the stained glass windows used in Con-stantinople at the present day, the pattern beingformed by the traceried framework in which thepieces of glass are inserted. Windows of thiskind are mentioned as early as the fifth century,but those of painted glass not until the is evidence of a painted window having„ , been placed in the Abbey of Te- Painted Glass, gernsee, in Bavaria, in 999, and ofone set up in the French abbey ofLoroux in 1121. To 1137-40 belong those in theapse of St. Denis, of which portions inscribed withthe name of Abbot Suger, s
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