Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 27888

Great Britain, Canterbury: Cathedral, Christ Church
Great Britain, Canterbury: Cathedral, Christ Church

Record No

27888

Collection

The Jane Hayward Database of Medieval Art

Location

United Kingdom, England, Kent, Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral

Date

1396 - 1499

Subject Headings

King of England

Notes

Nave West Window, Kings of England Window.

Zones 1-5, and figure of King of England in zone 9 mainly date from 1396 to 1411 on stylistic and heraldic grounds; zones 6-8, 10-11, 13 from the 15th century. Panels of Ancestors of Christ of c. 1180, transferred from clerestories of North sides of Choir and Trinity Chapel, and East side of Southeast Transept to zones 9 and 12 of West Window in the Nave

Commissioned between 1396-1399 probably by Richard II of England (deposed in 1399) whose heraldic escutcheon and those of his first wife, Anna of Bohemia (d. 1394).

Rackham, B., Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral (1949) , pp. 17, 118-135; fig. p. 123 (diagram); figs. 51-54, 64(b-e); color pls. XIV, XV foll. pp. 114, 122

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Great Britain, 2. Christ Church, Canterbury (1981) , pp. 227-230, 231-248; color pl. XVII; figs. 380-418a, 421-432

Marks, R., Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages (1993) , pp. 178, 180; figs. 143, 144c (Kings of England)

Michael, M., Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral (2004) , pp. 162-175; color figs. pp. 163-175

Rackham, B., Stained Glass Windows of Canterbury Cathedral (1957) , pp. 19-20, 71-76; fig. p. 73 (diagram of window); pl. 7 foll. p. 84

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