Medieval History
Waterperry, Oxfordshire - Margaret FitzEllis and daughter.
Waterperry is on the eastern border of Oxfordshire, where it adjoins Buckinghamshire. The beautiful church has a lot of interest in it, some good monuments and a lot of medieval stained glass. Among the glass is the exquisite panel of a kneeling donor Margaret FitzEllis and her daughter, it dates from c. 1470. The detail in this image is sublime. Margaret wears a type of fashionable headdress called a 'butterfly' headdress. This sort of headress enclosed the sides of the head with fabric or buckrum and was overlaid with a veil of fine linen gauze. Notice that to give an effect of the gauze veil laying over the buckram the glazier has painted part of the decoration of the buckram on the inner and part on the outer surface of the glass. You will also see that the front of the headdress has a black band decorated with delicate foliage, to achieve the decoration the glazier has moved a fine point through a matt black wash. It's worth zooming into the photo on Flickr to get a closer look at this.
Oh and Mr FitzEllis does get a look in to. The donor image of Robert FitzEllis is in the next light:
- Clayton And Bell At Freeland
Photo by Lawrence OP The church of St Mary in Freeland, Oxfordshire was designed by J L Pearson in the Early English style. It was constructed between 1869 and 1871 at the expense of the Taunton family. The church has an exquisite and remarkably well-preserved...
- Saints In All Saints, North Street, York
To celebrate the feast of All Saints, here is the east window of All Saints, North Street in the city of York. This church is a place that is very dear to my heart, I worshipped here between 1998 and 2005 and it was here that my vocation was fostered....
- Christ In Majesty - Thirteenth Century Glass
Aston Sandford, Buckinghamshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.The tiny thirteenth century church at Aston Sandford in Buckinghamshire has a single panel of medieval glass, a glorious figure of Christ in Majesty labelled as 'Salvator Mundi'...
- Workshop Technique - Glass From East Harling, Norfolk
East Harling, Norfolk, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.The east window of the East Harling church contains a considerable amount of late fifteenth century stained glass of the Norwich school. The window is composite, and among the panels are a series...
- The Fur Almuce - A Long Forgotten Bit Of Choir Dress
Newington, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.This panel of glass is in the beautiful church of Newington in Oxfordshire. The glass dates from the early sixteenth century and was jointly the gift of Dr Stephen Barworth (died 1511) and Dr Richard...
Medieval History
Glass painting technique
Waterperry, Oxfordshire - Margaret FitzEllis and daughter.
Waterperry is on the eastern border of Oxfordshire, where it adjoins Buckinghamshire. The beautiful church has a lot of interest in it, some good monuments and a lot of medieval stained glass. Among the glass is the exquisite panel of a kneeling donor Margaret FitzEllis and her daughter, it dates from c. 1470. The detail in this image is sublime. Margaret wears a type of fashionable headdress called a 'butterfly' headdress. This sort of headress enclosed the sides of the head with fabric or buckrum and was overlaid with a veil of fine linen gauze. Notice that to give an effect of the gauze veil laying over the buckram the glazier has painted part of the decoration of the buckram on the inner and part on the outer surface of the glass. You will also see that the front of the headdress has a black band decorated with delicate foliage, to achieve the decoration the glazier has moved a fine point through a matt black wash. It's worth zooming into the photo on Flickr to get a closer look at this.
Oh and Mr FitzEllis does get a look in to. The donor image of Robert FitzEllis is in the next light:
- Clayton And Bell At Freeland
Photo by Lawrence OP The church of St Mary in Freeland, Oxfordshire was designed by J L Pearson in the Early English style. It was constructed between 1869 and 1871 at the expense of the Taunton family. The church has an exquisite and remarkably well-preserved...
- Saints In All Saints, North Street, York
To celebrate the feast of All Saints, here is the east window of All Saints, North Street in the city of York. This church is a place that is very dear to my heart, I worshipped here between 1998 and 2005 and it was here that my vocation was fostered....
- Christ In Majesty - Thirteenth Century Glass
Aston Sandford, Buckinghamshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.The tiny thirteenth century church at Aston Sandford in Buckinghamshire has a single panel of medieval glass, a glorious figure of Christ in Majesty labelled as 'Salvator Mundi'...
- Workshop Technique - Glass From East Harling, Norfolk
East Harling, Norfolk, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.The east window of the East Harling church contains a considerable amount of late fifteenth century stained glass of the Norwich school. The window is composite, and among the panels are a series...
- The Fur Almuce - A Long Forgotten Bit Of Choir Dress
Newington, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.This panel of glass is in the beautiful church of Newington in Oxfordshire. The glass dates from the early sixteenth century and was jointly the gift of Dr Stephen Barworth (died 1511) and Dr Richard...