PLATE XXXVIII
KNEELING DONORS, FROM "ACTS OF MERCY" WINDOW,
ALL SAINTS', NORTH STREET, YORK
Fifteenth Century
Winchester Cathedral.
The great west window of Winchester Cathedral contains fragments and a few whole figures of very similar work, and there are others in the side windows of the nave. William of Wykeham's will, made in 1403, leaves money for the glazing of the Cathedral windows "beginning from the west at the first window of the new work done by him," which sounds as if the west end had been already glazed. Indeed the fragments there are more like the eastern windows (the earliest, if I am right) in New College antechapel, while in the fragments that remain in the side windows of the nave the later hand can be traced, though the tendency in the canopies of these is to assimilate gradually to the regular Perpendicular type which by this time had been developed elsewhere.
Winston thinks the west window of the Cathedral may have been glazed in the time of William of Wykeham's predecessor, Bishop Edington, in which case it is not unlikely that it and the east windows of the antechapel at New College were the work of Thomas's master, whose style was further developed and improved by Thomas himself.
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THE STYLE OF THE THIRD PERIOD
PLATE XXXIX
FIGURE, FROM "VISITING THE PRISONERS,"
IN "ACTS OF MERCY" WINDOW, ALL SAINTS', NORTH STREET,
YORK
Fifteenth Century