Thursday, July 18, 2024

Fourteen Armorial Windows of a Single Pattern, Part 1 of 7


There are in York Minster fourteen armorial stained glass windows which are all of a single pattern.

Though the specific coats of arms and Bibilical figures, and the outline designs of the clear portions of the glass, are all (mostly) different, all of these windows consist of five lights below a small rose window and tracery containing stained glass, each light has a row of mostly Biblical scenes beneath which is another row of coats of arms, like this:


The coats of arms in this window are as follows:


From left to right, we see the arms of:

John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray (1286-1322), Gules a lion rampant argent; Ranulph de Neville (d. 1331) or Robert de Neville (Ranulph’s son), Gules a saltire argent; England, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or); Warenne, Earl of Sussex, Checky or and azure); and Hugh FitzHenry (d. 1305) or his son, Henry FitzHugh, Azure three chevronels braced and a chief or.

Then we come to the next window, where you can see both the similarities and the differences between this one and the previous window:


Where we find the following coats of arms:


From left to right, these are: Roger Bigod (1209-1270), 4th Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England, Or a cross gules; Aymer de Valence (1270-1324) or William de Valence (d. 1296), Earl of Pembrok, Barry argent and azure an orle of martlets gules; England, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or; Percy, Earl of Northumberland, Quarterly: 1 and 4, Or a lion rampant azure (Percy modern); 2 and 3, Gules three lucies haurient in fess argent (Lucy); and finally, Philip de Panton. Argent a canton gules.

Next time, two more windows built on this same pattern.

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