A Picture for Sunday - Leaded Glass

Painted glass at Tyntesfield.  I love the repair to the broken pane at the top right.  Nothing like a strip of lead to fix things.

Pictures for Sunday - Medieval Glass

Eerily beautiful when you learn the history of this stained glass at the Bishop's Palace in Wells.  During restoration works in the 19th century fragments of medieval glass were recovered from Northern France where churches had been ruined during the Revolution.

Although we have visited Wells many times, this was our first visit to the Bishop's Palace. The weather was wonderful (a minor miracle on my birthday, last Tuesday) so we could enjoy the gardens too.

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A Picture for Sunday - The Annunciation

You can see the Archangel Gabriel from the same window here.

A Picture for Sunday - The Archangel Gabriel

Do you think his wings are attached?  Does it even matter?

A Picture for Sunday - St. Elizabeth

One of the windows in a church near here, this one depicting St. Elizabeth of Hungary holding a basket of roses - just a few feet away is St. Patrick.

A Picture for Sunday - Mary

A detail from a church window depicting Martha and Mary.

A Picture for Sunday - Martha

A detail of a church window depicting Martha and Mary.

A Picture for Sunday - The Storm

I took this picture in a parish church in Herefordshire over a year ago, and only today have I worked out which gospel passage it illustrates - the calming of the storm, as recounted in the gospel of St. Matthew.  The view of the town in the background, and the fact that I thought Jesus was standing on the shore, really threw me.  We have had strong winds today, which must have helped the answer dawn on me. 

A Pretty Picture for Sunday - St. Patrick

A beautiful stained glass window to commemorate a great saint.

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Happy Easter

Rejoice, He is Risen

We Have Seen His Star in the East

To celebrate the Twelfth Day of Christmas, here is a a photo I took last week of a beautiful window in a country church in Herefordshire.  If you can enlarge the photo on your screen, have a close look at the king kneeling at the front - his hair is flattened down and there is an impression left in it by the rim of his crown, which he has taken off to put on the floor.

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