Some of Derbyshire's "rarest and finest preserved" medieval stained glass windows are to be restored to their former glory. The three windows, belonging to Dronfield Parish Church, have been ...
From satirical apes, symbolising fraud, to the phoenix, representing immortality, medieval stained glass windows were a crucial way to teach the poor about God and moral values hundreds of years ago.
The technology of creating stained glass has been changed by improved tools and increased scientific knowledge, but the technique is essentially the same as in medieval times. A full size drawing of ...
Thompson, 1995 Medieval glazing in Westminster Abbey ... Clarke Davis, 1890 Glazing the clerestory: the east window of Henry VII chapel… by Alan Younger, in Journal of Stained Glass vol. XXIV, 2000 ...
Stained glass reflects the centrality of religion to medieval life. Wealthy donors paid for artworks to be put into churches; for the glory of God and to remind their contemporaries to pray for them.
Renovation work at Notre-Dame has been a boon for archaeologists, who have been able to access underground areas that date back to hundreds of years before the cathedral was built. Among the many sets ...
Jericho Keys meets the Woodside Stained Glass team who design ... there are the challenges of working with medieval stonework or woodwork and respecting the other crafts that are involved." ...