Windows
Early stained and painted glass panels
Catalogue ID: 619
NADFAS ID: 749 & 751
Description
There are interesting fragments of old glass here. R to L:
Panel 1:
- Arms of Percy (Earl of Northumberland) quartered with Lucy of Cockermouth (Lord Egremont) (luce or pike as a name rebus). Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, had married the heiress Maud Lucy of Egremont as his second wife. The arms will be after 1416, when Henry V restored the Earldom to the Percy family.
- A sun in splendour.
- Arms of Strother of Wallington, impaled with Hebburn. This represents the second marriage of Agnes Hebburn. She was a daughter of Robert Hebburn (1350-1415) of Newton-by-the-Sea, a merchant from a gentry family, who served as Sheriff, Mayor and MP for Newcastle. Her first husband, Richard Dalton, also held these post, but seems to have died around 1421. She then married John Strother of Wallington, who was also Sheriff and Mayor of Newcastle, but was widowed again in 1424. Her third marriage was to the Hull mayor, MP and merchant John Bedford, who had served as deputy to Thomas Chaucer, the Chief Butler of England. Bedford died in 1451, bequeathing a chantry at Holy Trinity. Agnes died in 1459 and was buried with him, 'before the image of the Virgin'. The panel may have been part of a bigger commemorative scheme from the Bedford Chantry, perhaps including arms of all three of Agnes's marriages and John Bedford's previous marriage.
Panel 2:
- A 15C? depiction of St Julian the Hospitaller, his wife, and the Leper (Christ in disguise), in boat. St Julian was patron saint of ferrymen, boatmen and innkeepers.
- A 16C Dutch or Flemish panel, depicting either Lot being warned by two angels to leave Sodom, or a scene from the Book of Tobit, Ch. 5: 16, in which Tobias and the angel Raphael say farewell to Tobit. It is difficult to tell whether the blond man on the left is an angel or not, hence question of identification. The dog is a common figure in the story of Tobias.
- The arms of Francis Russell (c 1527-85), 2nd Earl of Bedford. These probably date to his time as Warden of the East Marches and Governor of Berwick, 1564-67 (he was made Knight of the Garter in 1564). Some panels within the shield have been lost and replaced with unrelated pieces of coloured glass, making a nonsense of some parts of the heraldry.
Panel 3:
- The arms of Hull
- A sun in splendour.
- A mosaic of fragments, inluding parts of a garter from around a lost heraldic device; the face of a late 15-early 16C woman wearing a black hood; the face of a priest or angel in ecclesiastical-type robes, probably 15C.
Roundel:
- Above all is a Netherlandish painted glass roundel, within a border of flowers and fruit, dated ‘ANNO 1609’, with the monogram ‘SW’ or ‘SVV, depicting Susanna being brought before her accusers (Book of Daniel, Ch. 13, which is placed in the Apocrypha in the Protestant tradition).