stained glass

The Mysterious Stained Glass of St Alkelda’s Church, Giggleswick (Revisit)

Oct 4, 2025

art, buildings, culture, history, medieval life, religion, Richard III, Uncategorized

art, Gigglewick, Holy well, Middleham, pilgrimage, St Akelda, stained glass

Many Ricardians know that there are just two churches in the world dedicated to St Alkelda, one is in Middleham and the other in Giggleswick, but very few are aware of a mysterious stained glass in the latter. The whole matter started with a parish fair. Parishioners from both churches were looking for items to…
Some highly interesting talks and tours about the Yorkist secrets of Coldridge church….

Feb 21, 2025

buildings, Events, heraldry, history, research, Richard III, Uncategorized

“Princes”, Coldridge Church, Edward V, Richard III, stained glass

If you go to this link https://tinyurl.com/5t4nyjfb, from which the above photograph is taken, you’ll learn of the following: “….The 2025 Season of monthly history talks and guided tours of St Matthew’s Church at Coldridge [Devon] re-start on Thursday, February 27…. “….Two tours will be held on the day, bookable in advance, starting at 11am…
The real Babes in the Wood of the 14th century….

May 11, 2024

anniversaries, art, buildings, law, religion, sources

agecroft hall, babes in the wood, forced veiling, guardians, irwell valley, John of Gaunt window, Langley estates, laws of inheritance, litigation, Margaret de Prestwick, minors, nuns, Prestwich, Richard de Radcliffe, robert de holand, Robert Holand, Robin Hood, Roger de Langley, stained glass

In 1374 the Langley estates in Lancashire were left to 9-year-old Roger de Langley. On behalf of the boy’s guardian, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the Sheriff of Lancashire took control of the Langley estates and its young heir during the boy’s minority. It was the law for heirs who were minors to be…
More praise for Philippa Langley’s discoveries concerning the Princes in the Tower….

Jan 16, 2024

archaeology, battles, Book Reviews, buildings, films, genealogy, law, religion, Science

“Princes”, Battle of Bosworth, Berkeley Castle, Coldridge, Dominic Smee, Edward II, Edward III, Elizabeth of York, Fieschi Letter, Henry IV, Henry VII, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, Kathryn Warner, Leicester dig, mtDNA evidence, Philippa Langley, Pontefract Castle, Richard II, Richard III, scoliosis, Sir William Stanley, stained glass, The Lost King, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486, usurpation

Praise and admiration abound for Philippa Langley’s new discoveries and the book that tells all about the work she and her colleagues have been doing to trace what really happened to the boys in the Tower, the sons of Edward IV. Well, they were princes until 1483, then they were illegitimate boys, and then…
Heraldry

Oct 29, 2023

genealogy, heraldry

crests, de Clares, Despensers, family rolls, heiresses, impalement, inheritance, Joan de Geneville, Ludlow Castle, Ludlow Castle Heraldic Roll, multiple quartering, Roger Mortimer, stained glass, tombs

The shield depicted, which belongs to the Heraldic Roll of Ludlow Castle (and which can be seen at the castle) is that of Roger Mortimer, first Earl of March and his wife Joan de Geneville. This is what is called a heraldic impalement. The husband’s arms are to the left as you look at it…
A surprise on the window of a ROMAN CATHOLIC church

Aug 15, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion

BBC Look East, Blitz, Cambridge, Catholic churches, executions, John Fisher, listed buildings, Margaret of Salisbury, Our Lady of the Assumption and the English Martyrs, stained glass, Thomas More, You Tube

I refer to “Our Lady of the Assumption and the English Martyrs” on Hills Road, Cambridge, a limestone building that dates from 1890, but the windows were repaired after the Blitz. They feature, as the second half of the name suggests, thirty people, who include Bishop John Fisher, Sir Thomas More and a certain Countess…
The art that made us

Nov 8, 2022

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, culture, humour, religion, Science, television reviews

Aphra Benn, Armada, Arts and Crafts, Barbara Hepworth, Battle of Hastings, Bayeux Tapestry, BBC2, Beowulf, Black Death, Bloomsbury Group, British Empire, Burns, Charles I, Colonel Blimp, Cool Britannia, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, David Threlfall, Death and the Gallant, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth I, embroidery, English Civil War, Festival of Britain, First World War, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Geoffrey Chaucer, Great Fire of London, Hanif Kureishi, Harry Potter, Hogarth, Industrial Revolution, Jane Austen, Jarrow march, John Foxe, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Joshua Reynolds, Julian of Norwich, kitchen sink drama, Llancarfon, Margery Kempe, Mary Stuart, murals, Norman conquest, Oliver Cromwell, Phillip Larkin, Piers Plowman, poetry, pre-Raphaelites, Reformation, Restoration, Richard II, Roman Britain, Rubens, satire, Second World War, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir William Orpen, St. Cadoc’s church, St. Paul’s, stained glass, Stuarts, The art that made us, The Fighting Temeraire, The unknown soldier, Tracey Emin, Trainspotting, Turner, urbanisation, van Dyck, Walter Sickert, Welsh Bible, William Cobbett, William Morgan, William Shakespeare, Wilton Diptych, York Minster

This is another fascinating BBC2 series, illustrating English and British history through the evolution of our art. The eight one-hour episodes, narrated by David Threlfall (Men of the World), feature:The Roman and pre-Roman periods, Beowulf, the Norman conquest and the Bayeux Tapestry; The Black Death, Wilton Diptych, Piers Plowman, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich,…
The stained-glass windows at Canterbury Cathedral are among Europe’s oldest….

Oct 6, 2022

anniversaries, art, buildings, religion, Science

Canterbury Cathedral, fire of Canterbury, Henry II, John Morton, St. Thomas Becket, stained glass

Thanks to a TV documentary involving student stained-glass glaziers this viewer was taken to Canterbury Cathedral to see its astonishingly beautiful windows, some of which we learned have now been dated as early as the mid-1100s, maybe even the 1130s.. Léonie Seliger, the head of stained glass conservation at the cathedral, and part of the…
Which Master Crafter will win this new series….?

Jul 1, 2022

art, buildings, religion, television reviews

Arts and Crafts, Charles Prince of Wales, Grinling Gibbons, Heritage Foundation, Jim Moir, Petworth, Sky Arts, stained glass, The Prince’s Master Crafters, William Morris, wood carvings, woodworm

According to The Prince’s Master Crafters: The Next Generation (Sky Arts), a new young generation of crafters is desperately needed to halt a virtual haemorrhage of endangered skills, and who better to drum up support than His Royal Highness, Prince of Wales, who is always at the forefront of matters concerning our heritage. The…
Edward V, the Coldridge Mystery and the Telegraph article

Apr 9, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, heraldry, religion, Science, sources

“Princes”, Bill Gardner, Canterbury Cathedral, churches, Coldridge, Daily Telegraph, Devon, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Roberts, fetterlock and falcon, Henry VII, Jean Molinet, John Dike, Lady Margaret Beaufort, mtDNA, Old Deer Park, open crown, Philippa Langley, Richard III, Robert Markenfield, Sir John Evans, stained glass, Stoke Field, sunne in splendour, The Dublin King, The Missing Princes Project, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, white rose, Yorkist emblems

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Stained glass image of Edward V in the Evans chapel at Coldridge Church. Image has been verified as being of Edward V by stained glass experts Brooks and Cherry as well as the Keeper of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Photo Photo Dale Cherry Here is a…