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The Heraldic Glass in the Chapter House of York Minster: Part 5 of 7 (the...
Next up on our look at the seven windows in the Chapter House of York Minster, we come to the southeast window:In the rose window at the center top, we have the arms of England, Gules three lions...
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The Heraldic Glass in the Chapter House of York Minster: Part 6 of 7 (the...
Moving right along ("footloose and fancy free"*), we come now to the south window in the Chapter House in York Minster.Again, we start out in the top center rose window with the arms of England, Gules...
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The Heraldic Glass in the Chapter House of York Minster: Part 7 of 7 (the...
Alas, all good things must come to an end, and so it is that with this post, we come the last of the stained glass windows in the Chapter House in York Minster.In the rose window at the top, instead of...
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A Stained Glass Armorial Window That Is Truly a Family Affair
Having finished our tour of the Chapter House and its armorial stained glass windows, we find ourselves back out in the main body of York Minster, and looking at this window:This is the Peter de Dene...
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We Declared Our Independence! Now What? I Know, a Coat of Arms
Late on the afternoon of July 4, 1776, the same day as the official date of the Declaration of Independence which had been adopted two days before, the Continental Congress of the newly-declared United...
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The Mauley Window in York Minster
One of the tricky bits about identifying all of the coats of arms in the stained glass windows in York Minster is the dearth of good sources regarding those windows. The sources that I have to hand are...
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The Syme Window in York Minster
This next armorial window in York Minster, which I seem to be in the definite minority in wanting to call the Syme Window, is especially interesting to me because I do not seem to be able to identify...
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Not All the Stained Glass Heraldry in York Minster Is Found in Shields
Not all of the stained glass heraldry in the windows of York Minster is placed in shield shapes. Sometimes, it is used simply as a decorative element to frame or set off the events being told in the...
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Fourteen Armorial Windows of a Single Pattern, Part 1 of 7
There are in York Minster fourteen armorial stained glass windows which are all of a single pattern.Though the specific coats of arms and Bibilical figures, and the outline designs of the clear...
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Fourteen Armorial Windows of a Single Pattern, Part 2 of 7
Continuing along the wall with these similarly patterned windows, we come to the next pair. First:With the following coats of arms:From left to right, we have the arms of:Beaufort, England and a...
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Fourteen Armorial Windows of a Single Pattern, Part 3 of 7
Moving along, we come to our next window in York Minster. I've not paired this one with the next one in line, because some of the arms are newer as opposed to the historical ones with arms we have seen...
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Fourteen Armorial Windows of a Single Pattern, Part 4 of 7
Continuing our review of the armorial windows all based on the same overall pattern in York Minster, we now come to the following:Here again in the five main lights we have a row of Biblical scenes and...
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Fourteen Armorial Windows of a Single Pattern, Part 5 of 7
Continuing our survey of the coats of arms in these fourteen windows in York Minster which are all of a single pattern or type, we come to the following:In this window, we find the arms, from left to...
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Fourteen Armorial Windows of a Single Pattern, Part 6 of 7
In the inimitable words of Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Movie,      Movin' right along      Footloose and fancy-free      Getting there is half the fun, come share it with me...
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Fourteen Armorial Windows of a Single Pattern, Part 7 of 7
And now we come to the last three windows (an odd number, because one of my earlier posts required enough explanation that it only covered a single of these windows) in the Clerestory Nave in York...
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Heraldry In The News!
It's time for another edition of "Heraldry In The News!", though this time not for the most positive of reasons.Now, to be honest, I haven't been following the anti-immigration demonstrations (and...
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A Row of Saints and Their Attributed Arms
As I continued my perambulation around York Minster looking for heraldry, I came across this row of four windows containing the stained glass images of four saints, along with their attributed arms,...
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St. Michael the Archangel, St. Peter, and the Civic Trust
Our next window from York Minster is a less ornately decorated one, but still impressive.The central figure is that of St. Michael the Archangel slaying the dragon.You might want to click on the image...
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Henry V, Act III, Scene 1
Today's window from York Minster immediately reminded me of Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, Scene 1, which has Henry before the walls of Harfleur giving his "Once more unto the breach, dear friends"...
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Saints and Regular People
The two windows in York Minster that we're going to look at today each have the arms of a saint along with the arms of just a regular person (albeit presumably a rich one).Here, with the central figure...
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