Stained Glass Tours in EnglandSherrill, Charles Hitchcock
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Stained Glass Tours in England
Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock
Cathedrals -- England; England -- Description and travel; Glass painting and staining -- England
Our glass-hunting tours will take us into almost every part of England.
We shall go up and down the east coast cathedrals, from York in the
north to Canterbury in the south-east. We shall also wander through the
entire range of southern counties, and see the whole coast from
Winchester, west through Salisbury and Exeter to St. Neot, far off in
Cornwall, hard by Land's End. But it will be in that corner of England
which lies between Oxford and the Welsh border, that the greatest wealth
of windows will be found. We shall arrange the tours so that the order
in which the windows are viewed will conform chronologically with the
stages of the craft's development. It will, of course, largely depend on
whether he elects to travel by rail, by automobile, or by bicycle, just
how slavishly the pilgrim follows the order in which the towns have been
set out. The trips have been arranged with an eye to geography rather
than to railway time-tables--geography is so much more stable than
"Bradshaw's General Railway Guide"! The omission from the list of sundry
important cathedrals, like Durham, Ely, Peterborough, Worcester, &c.,
is caused by the deplorable fact that all their ancient stained glass
has been destroyed.
The order of towns is as follows:
Early English Epoch Salisbury, Canterbury, Lincoln,
York.
Decorated Epoch York, Norbury, Shrewsbury,
Ludlow, Hereford,
Tewkesbury, Deerhurst,
Bristol, Wells, Exeter,
Dorchester, Oxford.
Perpendicular Epoch Oxford, Fairford, Cirencester,
Gloucester, Great
Malvern, Little Malvern,
Ross, Warwick,
Coventry, York.
Salisbury.
Winchester.
St. Neot.
Renaissance Epoch London, Cambridge, Lichfield,
Shrewsbury.
Guildford, Gatton, Knole.
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