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when the window designed by Sir Joshua Reynolds was put up. 

 The contents of the boxes were examined by Mr. Winston, who 

 found that they contained fragments of 13th and 14th century 

 glass. On May 25th, 1850, five years later, Mr. H. K Middleton, 

 during the rebuilding of Bradford Peverell Church, went to Oxford 

 to see some glass which had been offered to him for the church by 

 the Warden of New College, and was said to have been removed 

 from the top of the west window of the chapel.* The cases were 

 sent to Mr. Nockalls J. Cottingham, an eminent glass painter, who 

 reported that they contained 124 feet of ancient glass. There was 

 little figure work amongst it, but a large quantity of rich plain 

 colour and diaper work, which he thought could be worked into 

 draperies of figures, &c. The ornament, he said, was exceedingly 

 good. Amongst it was the sacred monogram I.H.S., each letter 

 on a separate piece of glass and surmounted by a crown a very 

 unusual arrangement. There was also much beautiful canopy 

 work. The present east window, which is in the Early English 

 (13th century) style, was designed with the intention of utilising 

 as much of the Early English glass as possible. The draperies of 

 the angels, of our Lord in the vesica piscis supported by them, and 

 much of the dark background, is original Early English glass. 

 The sanctus, the outer border, and some of the plain glass in the 

 grounds is 14th century; the remainder and the design are modern. 

 Some of the ancient glass has been retouched. Mr. Cottingham 

 proposed to use the 14th century glass, including some of the 

 canopy work, in a second window, but this suggestion was not 

 carried out, and, with the exception of some fragments still in Mr. 

 Middleton's possession, the remainder of the glass was lost. 



In a window on the north side of the nave are the arms of 

 William of Wykeham, surrounded by the ribbon of the Garter. 



* From the description of the contents of the cases given by Mr. 

 Cottingham, from what we see of the Early English glass, from what we 

 know the canopy work of the 14th century would be like, it seems veiy 

 improbable that the glass came from the west window only, or that such 

 glass as was found in the cases would have been combined in one window 

 anywhere. 



