Medieval History
Helen Brower is a window cleaner and people pay five pounds ($7.25) an hour to watch her work.
Brower is one of a half dozen glaziers hired to clean and restore the world?s largest collection of medieval stained-glass windows. They festoon York Minster, one of Europe?s largest cathedrals and they need to be cleaned every 125 years.
More than 43 kilometres of scaffolding was erected to remove the world?s largest stained-glass window ? called the Great East Window ? in an end wall of the massive cathedral in the heart of this historic city in northern England.
Click here to read this article from the Toronto Star
- High-tech Glazing For Lincoln Cathedral Medieval Windows
New protective glazing could be fitted to four medieval windows in Lincoln Cathedral to protect the historic stained glass. Special monitoring sensors will even be fitted to the windows to ensure the new glazing is set at exactly the right position to...
- Wales: Medieval Glass Windows Cleaned After 600 Years
Members of a Neath Valley church can see clearly once more. Colourful medieval stained glass windows in Glynneath's St Cadoc's Church are being put back in place after they were removed for cleaning ? for the first time in about 600 years. The...
- York Minster Great East Window's Secrets Explored
The secrets of the Great East window at York Minster are to be explored in a BBC television documentary. The window, at 78ft (24m) in height, is the UK's largest medieval stained-glass window. The 311 individual panels reveal a Christian history of...
- Wodshawe And Twygge
As well as the glorious vestment fragments posted previously, Buckland in Gloucestershire has a number of panels of medieval stained glass. The east window has three panels from a Seven Sacrament window of the late fifteenth century, including this panel...
- 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....
Medieval History
York: In English city, cleaning windows becomes a tourist draw
Brower is one of a half dozen glaziers hired to clean and restore the world?s largest collection of medieval stained-glass windows. They festoon York Minster, one of Europe?s largest cathedrals and they need to be cleaned every 125 years.
More than 43 kilometres of scaffolding was erected to remove the world?s largest stained-glass window ? called the Great East Window ? in an end wall of the massive cathedral in the heart of this historic city in northern England.
Click here to read this article from the Toronto Star
- High-tech Glazing For Lincoln Cathedral Medieval Windows
New protective glazing could be fitted to four medieval windows in Lincoln Cathedral to protect the historic stained glass. Special monitoring sensors will even be fitted to the windows to ensure the new glazing is set at exactly the right position to...
- Wales: Medieval Glass Windows Cleaned After 600 Years
Members of a Neath Valley church can see clearly once more. Colourful medieval stained glass windows in Glynneath's St Cadoc's Church are being put back in place after they were removed for cleaning ? for the first time in about 600 years. The...
- York Minster Great East Window's Secrets Explored
The secrets of the Great East window at York Minster are to be explored in a BBC television documentary. The window, at 78ft (24m) in height, is the UK's largest medieval stained-glass window. The 311 individual panels reveal a Christian history of...
- Wodshawe And Twygge
As well as the glorious vestment fragments posted previously, Buckland in Gloucestershire has a number of panels of medieval stained glass. The east window has three panels from a Seven Sacrament window of the late fifteenth century, including this panel...
- 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....