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As a parishioner of seven years, the beauty of the stained glass windows of St. Denis church has intrigued me. The stories behind them too, both their religious significance and history of how the windows came to be has nagged at my imagination.
NEW STAINED GLASS WINDOWS IN CHURCHES 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 There is a long tradition of stained glass windows in our churches, which stretches back to the centuries when the majority of the population were illiterate. Pictures, illustrations and visual designs were a primary method for teaching people about the Christian faith.
This survey of the stained-glass windows in St Nicholas Church is based on a talk given on 24 June 2010 to the Friends of St Nicholas Church and their guests, by Martin Harrison FSA, the leading expert on Victorian Stained Glass. The church was comprehensively rebuilt in the early 1880s to designs drawn up in John Loughborough Pearson’s ...
In many churches centuries ago, windows were small and few in number, so that the walls would be strong enough to hold up the heavy slate roof. Pictures of events in Biblical and local history often were painted on the wide expanses of stone between the windows. In this way lessons in morality and history were taught to illiterate people.
The central stained-glass window (HI or H101) is dedicated, like the whole building, to the Holy Cross and St Eulàlia. It seems to be the oldest window of the Cathedral. A beautiful image of St Eulàlia (the old patron saint of the city) presides over the central lancet.
By 1600BCE people in the Middle East had learned how to make and mould glass. By 100CE the Romans learnt how to colour glass, and make colourful beads for jewellery and beautiful tableware. By the 10th Century stained glass was being used in church windows to tell stories from the bible.
the church, early 1400s, is found in this window with glass pre-dating the window c. 1470. Some has come from other windows in the church to form a fascinating collection of armorial glass linked to the history of the church and manor of Lapworth.
