Stained Glass by Roger Rosewell

Author:Roger Rosewell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Stained Glass
ISBN: 9781782001157
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Feeding the hungry, from the seven works of mercy, c. 1480–2, Holy Trinity, Tattershall, Lincolnshire.

Hell mouth, c. 1500–15, St Mary, Fairford, Gloucestershire.

Detail of Margaret FitzEllis, c. 1470, St Mary, Waterperry, Oxfordshire.

Sometimes groups, or confraternities, of people donated windows. Examples include the Palmers’ (or Pilgrims’) Guild windows at Ludlow (Shropshire) and a series of windows at St Neot (Cornwall) given in the 1520s by the young men, their sisters and wives who lived in the western part of the parish.

In some instances glass could be ‘signed’ with a rebus, a visual pun on the donor’s name. Good examples of the latter are several fifteenth-century windows at Weston-on-Avon (Warwickshire), crammed with repetitive images of a cook’s table mounted on a ship, signifying that they were the gifts of the local Cooksey family. Initials or merchants’ marks also appeared, for example at St Thomas, Salisbury (Wiltshire) and Stanford-on-Avon (Northamptonshire).

The inclusion of heraldry and donor images in windows might also emphasise the genealogy of a family, especially if shown in conjunction with images of Christ’s earthly family (the Holy Kindred) as at Thornhill (Yorkshire). In abbeys and cathedrals, heraldic windows recorded the identity of donors and promised prayers for those who gave money or land to the church.

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