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
One does not have to search far in the records of Salisbury to find why
there is so little remaining of its ancient glazing. Time has been
materially aided and abetted in its work of destruction by ruthless
restorations, of which the worst was Wyatt's in the eighteenth century.
We read that "whole cartloads of glass, lead, and other rubbish were
removed from the nave and transepts, and shot into the town ditch, then
in course of being filled up; whilst a good deal of similar rubbish was
used to level the ground near the chapter-house." Nor was destruction
the only means used to get rid of the Salisbury windows, as will appear
from the following letter written to Mr. Lloyd, of London, in 1788, by
John Berry, a glazier of Salisbury:
"SIR.--This day I have sent you a Box full of old Stained &
Printed glass, as you desired me to due, which I hope will sute
your Purpos, it his the best that I can get at Present. But I
expect to Beate to Peceais a great deal very sune, as it his of
now use to me, and we do it for the lead. If you want more of
the same sorts you may have what thear is, if it will pay you
for taking out, as it is a Deal of Truble to what Beating it to
Peceais his; you will send me a line as soon as Possable, for
we are goain to move our glasing shop to a Nother plase and
thin we hope to save a great deal more of the like sort, which
I ham your most Omble servent--JOHN BERRY."
There is also later glass to be seen here. St. Thomas's Church, in the
first embrasure from the east of the north aisle, has the remains of a
Decorated Tree of Jesse, in which, as well as in other fragments along
the traceries, there is a good deal of yellow stain observable. In the
vestry, which is off the north aisle, are three small lancets upon which
appear figures against quarry backgrounds not as usual ensconced in
canopies. The wooden ceilings in the north and south aisles are
especially fine.
For the Perpendicular glass at Salisbury _see_ p. 192.
CANTERBURY
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