144 PAINTED GLASS WINDOW IN MORLEY CHURCH, DERBYSHIRE. 



The old glazing of two of the five windows has now gone, frag- 

 ments excepted, and the other three were restored to some extent 

 in 1847, and with much judgement, considering the date. Two 

 of these three old windows, giving the legends in compartments of 

 St. Robert of Knaresborough and the Invention of the Cross, 

 have been already lithographed, and form part of the illustrations 

 to the History of Morley Church, by the late Rev. S. Fox, M.A. 

 The present window is here given entire for the first time.* It is 

 at the east end of the north aisle. It had originally four lights, 

 like the others, but one has been filled up to form space for a 

 mural tablet in memory of Jacinth Sacheverel and his wife. What 

 the subjects of the two windows now lost, and the fourth light of 

 this one were, we have no means of ascertaining. Mr. Fox 

 assured us that when he first came to Morley, he found a very 

 large quantity of broken fragments of painted glass, which he 

 caused to be used as far as possible in filling in the blank spaces 

 of the windows when they were restored by Warrington in 1847 '> 

 a large number were also used in making up a very beautiful mosaic 

 window in the south aisle, near the priest's door. This fragmen- 

 tary window has always appeared to us the most gem-like in the 

 church, containing as it does such a harmonious blending of some 

 charming bits of color. We may mention here that the fragment 

 of glass representing St. Catherine embodied into this window, 

 was not among the glass Mr. Fox found, but was put in by War- 

 rington to fill up, and it had never formed a part of the glass 

 originally belonging to the place. 



So far as is known at present, the central light of the window 

 now under notice, is a quite unique representation of the legend 

 of St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins of Cologne. St. 

 Ursula is here represented as ascending up into heaven with hands 

 outspread in benediction, while the eleven thousand virgins, her 

 companions in martyrdom, are represented by the eleven small 

 figures in the sheet, which is being borne up after her by angels 

 who hold its corners, so that they form a curious bundle of figures 



* The centre light is outlined in Churches oj Derbyshire, vol. iv. , plate xiv. 



