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Dear Jim Thank you for the suggestion. Tim was my tutor last year and most of my current research is being guided by his advice. It was he who initially raised the query with me about Bacon's suggestion of a church-wide Tree of Jesse. I have been unable to find any evidence for such a large motif. Two weeks ago I had a look at the fragment of a 15thc Tree of Jesse in the east window of St Kew, Cornwall where the hand grasping the vine is so large that the Jesse figure certainly extended across many lights, and must have been much larger than the figure at Margaretting. I am not going to find a Tree of Jesse motif covering adjacent windows but I am hopeful of tracing some documentary evidence, if it exists. Thank you again John H Hall Tel: 0208 527 0818 Fax: 0208 523 1885 email: [log in to unmask] Mobile: 07867 980 174 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 20 September 1999 10:51 Subject: Re: Painting of a Tree of Jesse window > > Dear Miriam > > > > Thank you for your suggestions. The RIBA was a new line of enquiry which I > > shall follow-up and also the new CVMA book on Lincolnshire which I did not > > know about. > > Dear John, > To follow up Miriam's suggestion that you contact someone in the > English Committee of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, you might in > particular contact Tim Ayers, at the Courtauld Institute, I believe. > He has done research on the curious Tree of Jesse window in > Dorchester Abbey, in which the imagery is contained both in the > stained glass and the stonework. > Cheers, > Jim Bugslag > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%