PAINTED WINDOWS AT HADDON HALL. 3 1 



figures form a central belt of charming, but subdued, gem-like 

 colouring, running across the whole. A shield of arms 

 decorates the centre of each basement panel. The batements 

 above are all occupied with small figures of saints on white 

 glass, with brown shading, and relieved with touches of stain. 



The first of the larger lights has the figure of S. Michael, with 

 a seven-headed dragon beneath his feet, pierced with his 

 sword. The left foot of the archangel crushes the wing of the 

 reptile, while the right on the neck depresses the raised and 

 threatening heads of the dragon. 



Treatment. — The face, hands, and feet on the exposed 

 portions of the angel are in white glass.* The body is 

 clothed in a feathery covering in yellow stain. The feathers 

 are arranged like laminae, or plates of mail, gradually increasing 

 in length towards the knees, which they protect — dependent. 

 This serial mail terminates at the ankles. The plumage of the 

 wings — also stained — is beautifully arranged ; the inner feathers 

 diverge horizontally from the shoulders, while the ^returning outer 

 margin of the wings are arranged vertically, lipping the e.xtremi- 

 ties of the inner feathers. Each wing feather is adorned with 

 a peacock eye within and without. 



A cincture of ruby is folded loosely round the loins. The 

 right hand of the angel rests on the dexter corner of a tilting 

 shield, bearing a floriated stained cross, on a white ground, from 

 the centre of which projects a barbed boss, while the left hand 

 grasps the hilt of a plain cross-guarded sword. 



A white mantle, lined with ermine, covers both shoulders, 

 and falls behind the figure to the ground. 



The dragon is a weird-looking creature of a bluish tinge, 

 with green tufts of hair here and there on his body. 



This, and the two other principal figures, stand on the 

 chequered floor of a slightly-raised square pediment, with smaller 



* The head of the archangel, surrounded by a white nimbus, is slightly 

 inclined forward. The hair recedes from the forehead in loose, wavy curls, 

 while a cincture, with a cross erect in the centre, passes over the forehead as 

 if to secure the golden tresses. 



