Thursday, May 1, 2025

"They're Everywhere! They're Everywhere!"


"Who?", you may ask?

Well, first, "they're everywhere" pretty much because we're looking at yet another stained glass window in yet another English church, and the people who made those stained glass windows had to be pretty much everywhere.

So, yeah, "they're everywhere!"

I refer, of course, to the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, whose arms we have seen before not that long ago in Ely Cathedral and in York Minster.

And today, we see that coat of arms once again, this time in Temple Church, London.

First, here's the (very impressive) window in which the arms of the Glaziers is placed, in the center light near the bottom:


And here's the detail:


I swear, if it hadn't been me or my late wife Jo Ann taking the photographs of the arms of the Company of Glaziers in all these different places, I might start to get a little paranoid and think that they were following me around.

But I know that isn't the case, and really, it's nice to find the same coat of arms done by different glaziers and stained glass painters in wildly different places, if only to see how the individual artists have treated the same shield, helm, crest, mantling, and supporters.

So for your edification, and so you don't have to scroll through previous posts to find them, here are the other depictions that we found in:

the Stained Glass Museum in Ely Cathedral:


and in York Minster:


Enjoy comparing them!

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