PLATE XXXV
CANOPY, FROM ALL SAINTS', NORTH STREET, YORK
Fifteenth Century
Of later fourteenth century work there is not very much in France. The country was devastated by war, and there can have been little money or heart left for painted windows. Whichever side of the channel the style of the early fourteenth century originated, it is quite certain that the next great movement came from England.
XII
LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY GLASS
IN ENGLAND
(TRANSITIONAL—GLOUCESTER AND THE WORK
OF THE WINCHESTER SCHOOL)
PLATE XXXVI
NICHOLAS BLACKBURN AND HIS WIFE,
FROM EAST WINDOW OF ALL SAINTS', NORTH STREET, YORK
Fifteenth Century
XII
LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY GLASS
IN ENGLAND
(TRANSITIONAL—GLOUCESTER AND THE WORK
OF THE WINCHESTER SCHOOL)
An interesting thing about the design of stained glass in the fourteenth century is that it never stands still, but changes more rapidly than at any other period in its history. At Gloucester, not more than from ten to twenty years after the latest of the windows I have been describing, the great east window of the Cathedral was filled with glass, which already faintly foreshadows the change into the style of the succeeding period.