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Ancient stained and painted glass (1913)

Eden, F. Sydney (Frederick Sydney) · Cambridge [Eng.] : University press; New York, G.P. Putman's sons · leaf 58

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dis agreeable enough at the floor-level of a greatchurch, we need, as a corrective, brighter light fromabove. Therefore it was that the clerestory windows inthe 13th century were usually, but not always—aswitness the clerestory medallion windows in the choirat Tours cathedral—glazed in a totally… … Fragment of figure and canopy. Wilton. (13th century) pieces of glass, were inserted in the clerestory; in 44 ANCIENT PAINTED GLASS [ch. each window, as a rule, one figure, but sometimestwo, one above the other. At Canterbury, in theclerestory of the Trinity chapel, were such figuresas these…

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