“The colouring of the lower lights--containing figures and canopies--is arranged on a principle not uncommon in early Perpendicular glass. The figures are almost entirely white, having yellow stained hair, and borders to their robes: the architectural work of the canopies is wholly composed of white and yellow stained glass. The positive colouring is confined to the spire backgrounds of the canopies, and the tapestry which lines the interior of the niche; and it is carried in uniform streaks, or columns, down the window. Thus the spire grounds and tapestries of the central column--which is two lights broad, all the other columns being only of the width of one light--are coloured red; those of the next column on each side the centre one are coloured blue; those of the next red, and so on. The large proportion of white used in the most coloured parts prevents any violent transition, from the figure and canopy part to the quarry part of the window.... “The full effect of the Gloucester window, no doubt, depends not only on the simplicity of the composition, the largeness of its parts, and the breadth of its colouring, but also on the excellence of the material of which the window is composed.... “The side windows of the choir-clerestory retain enough of their original glazing--which is precisely of the same date as that of the east window--to enable us to perceive that their lower tier of lights was filled with figures and canopies, and their upper tier and tracery-lights with borders and quarry patterns, having small roundels of ornament inserted of the same character as the pattern-work in the east window: a corroborative proof, if any were necessary, of the originality of the arrangement of the glass in the upper part of the east window, with which the arrangement of the glass in the side windows so perfectly harmonizes[19].” The date assigned by Mr. Winston to the east window, and to those of the clerestory, is between 1345 and 1350. XII. On the _south_ side of the presbytery is a projecting bracket of Perpendicular date, on which is placed the earlier effigy of an abbot--perhaps that of HENRY FOLIOT, (died 1243). It is too shattered, however, to be of much interest. On the _north_ side of the presbytery, beginning from the east, are:-- (1.) A high tomb with effigy of OSRIC, the Mercian “kinglet,” who is said to have founded the first religious establishment at Gloucester. (See § I., and Pt. II.) On the east end of the monument is the inscription,--“Osricus Rex primus fundator hujus monasterii--681.” The tomb and effigy are said to have been erected during the abbacy of WILLIAM PARKER, (1515-1539,) whose arms, together with those of the abbey, appear on it. The effigy is crowned and sceptred, and carries the model of a church in the left hand. The ermine collar of the robe is unusual.