“It is worthy of remark that the tracery, heads and cusps, as seen from the inside of this window, are not repeated on the outside, a plain transom only crossing the lights. This peculiarity is repeated in the great west [Illustration: GLOUCESTER: CHOIR, EAST] [Illustration: GLOUCESTER: CLOISTERS] window and in many other windows in the cathedral.”--(F. S. W.) The stone-work of the window was restored in 1862 and the glass cleaned and re-leaded. The window consists of fourteen lights--six on the centre with four on either side. The subjects are the Coronation of the Virgin Mary with Christ and the Apostles, saints and kings. The heraldic shields fix the date of the glass between 1347 and 1350. The canopies and nearly all the figures are of white glass enriched with yellow. The tones of red and blue are particularly rich. The drawing of the figures has been much criticised. “The whole of this, the loveliest choir in England, is lit by a mighty wall of jewelled glass behind the great golden reredos. “This vast east window which floods the choir of Gloucester, beautiful as a dream with its soft, silvery light faintly coloured with jewelled shafts of the richest blue and red, and here and there a vein of pale gold--this vast window could not have been seen out of England, or, at least, one of the grey and misty northern countries, where gleams of light or shafts of sunshine are exceedingly precious. In south or central Europe the effect of such a mighty window would be simply dazzling to the eye, would be painful from its excess of light.