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pictures within the screen, the history of the Faith in the aisles 
and clerestories, and the Judgment in the western windows. 
These need not be described in detail, the vicar has written an 
admirable little book on them and the church, which may be 
procured on the spot. But to thoroughly enjoy the windows the 
description by the venerable sexton should be heard. 
With regard to the origin of these windows, the tradition 
used to run that Sir Edmund Tame, in or about the reign of 
Henry VII., captured the glass from a merchant vessel and built 
the church to contain it. Vandyck is alleged to have said that 
_ Albert Diirer painted the windows, but intrinsic evidence goes to 
show that the glass was painted for this church and that it was 
made in England, though both German and Flemish workmen 
were employed. The Rev. J. G. Joyce wrote a detailed des- 
eription of the Fairford windows to accompany the coloured 
illustrations published by the Arundel Society in 1872, and came 
to the above conclusion, some of the grounds for his opinion being 
the presence of the royal badges of Edward IV. and the Prince of 
Wales, and of Perpendicular work in the canopies. _ The glass, as 
Mr. Joyce pointed out, had been disturbed from its original 
arrangement. This was apparently done by the impropriator, 
Mr. Oldysworth, in 1643, who is said to have concealed the glass 
from fear of damage by the Parliamentary Army. ‘The glass was 
replaced afew years later with some little damage and misplacing, 
but this the present vicar has, so far as was possible, remedied. 
Before his time the whole of the upper half of the west window 
and part of another window had unfortunately been destroyed by 
a “restoration.” All credit to the worthy vicar for his loving 
are of what was left. 
Besides the windows should be noticed the brasses, one of 
which is in memory of Sir Edmund Tame and his family, the 
tomb of the father, John Tame, and the misereres, very finely 
carved and in splendid preservation, in the choir. _The carved 
choir screen is very fine and almost entire, and the sexton, if 
