medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Painted walls, screens, lofts, carvings, tombs etc. are well
> documented, but is there any evidence for features such as windows
> (window mullions, cinquefoils etc.) also being decorated (both
> internally and externally)?
Dear Gerallt,
It is not common, but it does occur. One of the most splendid examples is the 14th-century
north sanctuary window of Dorchester Abbey Church, near Oxford, on which Tim Ayers did a
Masters Thesis at the Courtauld Institute. The interior stone tracery of the window forms a
Tree of Jesse, which is completed by figures within the glass. There is also a Crucifixion
carved on the central mullion of the late 15th-century window in the treasury chamber of the
abbey church at St Riquier in northern France, once again coordinated with the glass (only
some flanking angels in the tracery lights survive, though). On the exterior, the
circumference of the rose window of the church of Saint-Etienne at Beauvais is decorated
with a sculpted Wheel of Fortune (I don't believe the glass within the rose has survived).
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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