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minster Abbey. The great feature, however, of Fairford Church is the 
beautiful series of stained windows, which have excited so much 
attention in recent times. On the occasion of the visit of the Archzo- 
logical Association to Fairford in 1868, a very elaborate paper was 
read by H. F. Holt, Esq., on the “ Painted Windows of the Church,” in 
which he sought to prove them to be the work of Albert Durer. (See 
Journal of Brit. Arch. Ass. (1869) vol, xxv.) This paper led to some 
controversy, not only on the spot, but was the cause of another paper 
on the same subject published in the Arch, J ournal (vol, xxv. p. 119) 
by the Rev. J. Fuller Russell. - 
It is not needful to go further into the subject of this controversy, 
than to say that able and lucid as Mr. Holt’s arguments are, they have 
failed to convince the most thoughtful artists of their soundness. We 
will, therefore, briefly consider the subject of these interesting 
windows. ‘These are 28 in number, and most are divided into several 
compartments. The subjects are from the Old and New Testaments, 
and the Apocryphal Gospels, and are to be found in the “ Biblica 
Pauperum,” and in the “Speculum Humane Salvationis.” (See Mr. 
‘Holt’s description.) 
There are four subjects from the Old Testament, “The Temptation of 
Eve,” “The Lord appearing to Moses in the burning bush,” “The 
Double Sign of Gideon’s Fleece,” and “The Queen of Sheba’s visit to 
Solomon.” 
The subjects from the New Testament and from the Apocryphal 
Gospels are “The meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate,” 
“The Birth of the Virgin,” “The Presentation of the Virgin,” 
« The Marriage,” “ The Annunciation,” “ The Nativity of our Lord Jesus 
Christ,” “The Adoration of the Magi,” “The Purification of the Blessed 
Virgin Mary and the Presentation of the Infant Saviour in the Temple,” 
“The Flight into Egypt and the Massacre of the Innocents,” “ Our Lord 
‘with the Doctors in the Temple,” “The Assumption of the Virgin,” 
“Christ's entry into Jerusalem,” “Christ inthe Garden of Olives,” “ Pilate 
washing his hands,” “ The Scourging of Christ,” “Christ bearing his 
Cross,” “The Crucifixion,” “ The descent from the Cross,” “The Entomb- 
ment,” “The Heavenly Host vanquishing the Evil Spirits,” “The Descent 
into Hades,” “Christ appearing to the Virgip after his Resurrection,” “The 
Transfiguration,” “ Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene, &ec.,” “ Christ 
