ST LAWRENCE
Brief description: Stained glass light from right on window. The light depicts St Lawrence and dates from between 1310=1330.
Stained glass light from right of window depicting St Lawrence, who is wearing a blue halo and green robe. His left hand is raised while his right hand holds a gridiron, the instrument upon which he was tortured. Plain red background with trefoil cusped arch, steep gable and green crockets. Base of panel incomplete and replaced with green panes. This window dates c.1310-1330, the decorated gothic period. This style of glass-painting flourished in the period c1280-1350, with figures positioned under flat but decorative canopies. The brilliant colour of the glasses and the confident painting are also typical of this great period for English stained glass. The panel was originally part of a two-light window showing St Catherine and St Lawrence in a church in Wood Walton, Cambridgeshire, and was removed for safekeeping by the Friends of Friendless Churches in 1980. The tracery contained rearranged medieval fragments.
Object type: stained glass light
Number of objects: 1
Production date: 1310-1330
Production period: Medieval
Dimensions: Height: 760 mm, Width: 300 mm
Acquisition: loan 1972
Acquisition source: The Friends of Friendless Churches
Accession number: ELYGM:L1980.2.2
