Balderton DACref G Scrambled Lancet adj IMG_7535
Three lancet windows in the chancel of Balderton St Giles contain scrambled medieval glass, allegedly from the 14thC and 15thC, found buried in the churchyard. One of the other lancets incorporates later grey and gold stained diamond-quarries matching those in the patterned window (now in the W-wall of the S-aisle (N), but before 1925 it was the chancel E-window).
Recognisable fragments include:
The head of a bishop; two bearded heads; a golden-headed boy with a page-boy haircut; two clean-shaven faces; three faces with golden curls; a face by a pillar; two saints or angels wearing chain mail; an angel in chain mail playing a bowed instrument; hands pointing or blessing with golden rays behind; two birds; a fish; two feet emerging from a robe; the hands and chains of a censing angel; chain mail; wheat, a heraldic lion, etc.
Balderton DACref G Scrambled Lancet adj IMG_7535
Three lancet windows in the chancel of Balderton St Giles contain scrambled medieval glass, allegedly from the 14thC and 15thC, found buried in the churchyard. One of the other lancets incorporates later grey and gold stained diamond-quarries matching those in the patterned window (now in the W-wall of the S-aisle (N), but before 1925 it was the chancel E-window).
Recognisable fragments include:
The head of a bishop; two bearded heads; a golden-headed boy with a page-boy haircut; two clean-shaven faces; three faces with golden curls; a face by a pillar; two saints or angels wearing chain mail; an angel in chain mail playing a bowed instrument; hands pointing or blessing with golden rays behind; two birds; a fish; two feet emerging from a robe; the hands and chains of a censing angel; chain mail; wheat, a heraldic lion, etc.