148 PAINTED GLASS WINDOW IN MORLEY CHURCH, DERBYSHIRE. 



a bad example of such work, and was certainly done by a clever 

 artist. We may draw attention to the architectural arrangement 

 of the backgrounds of these three lights, which is Decorative and 

 Transitional, passing into Perpendicular. The lines in this 

 tabernacle work are made out in yellow enamel on white glass. 

 Such architectural arrangements are characteristic of the glass 

 of the 14th and 15 th centuries. Unfortunately, it has been so 

 much broken, and is put together in such a manner, that it is 

 extremely difficult to say whether it originally belonged to the 

 figures which it surrounds or not ; it is certainly incomplete, and 

 does not finish properly at the top, which leads to the supposition 

 that the birds and the fringes did not originally belong to them. 



It is also a question whether the processional groups below are 

 of the same date, they appear to be later Perpendicular, and of 

 the same date as the other two windows of the series. They 

 differ very much in style of work from the two large figures ; and 

 these also differ from the figures in two other windows on the south 

 . side of the church, of which it is intended to give illustrations in 

 a future volume of this journal. They are of the same period, 

 but some parts are earlier than others. These three lower groups, 

 together with the narrative glass of St. Robert, and the Invention 

 of the Cross, seem undoubtedly to be Abbot Stanley's glass of 

 1478 to 1482, whilst the Ursula and these groups are probably a 

 century, and certainly more than half-a-century older. Perhaps 

 they were inserted in the new cloister windows, much as we now 

 find them, from the older cloister windows, the Abbot preserving 

 the best of the previous windows. There are several English 

 instances of painted glass older than the tracery in which it is set. 



The three groups in the base of the window were supposed by 

 Mr. Fox to be illustrative of the Te Deum—" The Holy Church," 

 "The Glorious Company of the Apostles," and " the Noble Army 

 of Martyrs." It is a likely supposition, and it is by no means im- 

 possible that they form part of a group of twelve pictures, all 

 designed to illustrate the Te JDeum. 



The left hand group is clearly typical of the Church. It is led 

 by a Pope, immediately followed by a Cardinal and a Bishop, and 



