Medieval Fragments, 14/15th Century
From St. Margaret's, Wyton, Cambridgeshire.
These pieces of glass date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and have recently been releaded into their present shape. The crowns at either end provide a good example of the use of silver stain; they and the other fragments come from borders and backgrounds to medieval figurative panels which may have been destroyed at the time of the Reformation or during the attacks on religious images in East Anglia by seventeenth-century Puritans. Details of wing feathers can be seen which would have come from the characteristic figures of angels. This glass had been set in two panels of quatrefoil tracery in Victorian times which had then been removed from a window and placed in a chest of drawers in the redundant church where they were discovered in 1980.
Inv. No. 1980/17 Presented by the Ely Diocesan Board of Finance.
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