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Dear Cate
Thank you for your kind comments. The glass in the Twycross east window comes from several sources, not only St Denis but also the Sainte-Chapelle (there is a superb Descent from the Cross from there) and Le Mans and also possibly from Saint-Julien-du-Sault. It is said in Pevsner that it was presented to William IV, who gave it to Lord Howe (though an inscription notes Sir Wathen Waller as the donor). Louis Grodecki, in his CVMA volume on the glass of St Denis shows that at the beginning of the 19thC. this glass was in the ownership of Lenoir, and that J C Hampp of Norwich bought glass from Lenoir. He suggests that the glass went to Twycross via Hampp, (possibly Waller bought it from Hampp). I find that the most likely story and do not give serious credence to the involvement of William IV. We know that other glass now in other locations probably passed through the hands of Hampp and his associates.
Best wishes
Gordon
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple 2nd February
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Gordon
thank you for these - and all the other! - photographs of windows. One of these days I will look some of them out in the flesh, so to speak - I hadn’t realised how much medieval glass is preserved in England. How did the window from St Denis get to Twycross?
Thank you
Cate
Cate Gunn
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> On 2 Feb 2016, at 09:11, Gordon Plumb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Some images in glass:
>
> Twycross, St James, Leicestershire, east window, 3b, c.1145 originally from St Denis:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364791820
> and details:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364031749
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364031743
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364031757
>
> Canterbury Cathedral, nXV, pre 1180:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/13202500733
>
> Shrewsbury, St Mary, Nave, South aisle, south window, 1a, Presentation in the Temple:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3149056884
>
> Leicester, Jewry Wall Museum, late 15thC.:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15456156081
>
>
> Gordon Plumb
>
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From: Cate Gunn <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 14:43
Subject: Re: [M-R] Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple 2nd February
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Gordon
thank you for these - and all the other! - photographs of windows. One of these days I will look some of them out in the flesh, so to speak - I hadn’t realised how much medieval glass is preserved in England. How did the window from St Denis get to Twycross?
Thank you
Cate
Cate Gunn
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> On 2 Feb 2016, at 09:11, Gordon Plumb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Some images in glass:
>
> Twycross, St James, Leicestershire, east window, 3b, c.1145 originally from St Denis:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364791820
> and details:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364031749
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364031743
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2364031757
>
> Canterbury Cathedral, nXV, pre 1180:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/13202500733
>
> Shrewsbury, St Mary, Nave, South aisle, south window, 1a, Presentation in the Temple:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3149056884
>
> Leicester, Jewry Wall Museum, late 15thC.:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15456156081
>
>
> Gordon Plumb
>
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