By C. E. Pouting, F.S.A. 



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There are very numerous fragments of the old glass remaining, 

 but, beyond some lengths of the bordering and some filling of the 

 " eyes " of the tracery, no subject remains intact. There are, 

 however, large pieces of the quarry work with simple devices in 

 them in the upper part of the lights undisturbed: from this I 

 conjecture that the lights were filled with single figures surrounded 

 by such a setting, and with an outside border. The Eev. E. P. 

 Knubley (to whom I am indebted for much assistance in compiling 

 this paper) reminds me that in considering the subjects it is 

 necessary to remember that Steeple Ashton formerly belonged to 

 King Edgar — hence the names of Saxon kings would find a place 

 here. Amongst the fragments remaining I observed the following : 

 south chapel (east window), a king crowned and wearing a blue 

 robe, seated on a throne holding an orb surmounted by a somewhat 

 tall cross with trefoil terminals (cross trefld), similar to the cross 

 of King Athelstan (Aubrey, No. 386) ; a queen crowned and seated 

 on a similar throne, wearing a purple robe, hands folded over the 

 breast — by the last is a scroll (evidently placed here by accident) 

 with the inscription " Scs Edwa " ; a lamb on a book, and by it a 

 female hand (? S. Agnes) : (south windows) symbols of the 

 evangelists each enriched by a wreath of foliated stems ; a boar's 

 head and a piece of ermine in the border — the lion's heads in the 

 borders here have foliage above and below. South aisle (easternmost 

 window), part of a mitre, a pair of hands with sleeve and part of a blue 

 vestment ; a pall with four crosses paU fitchd. (Second window), 

 shields in the tracery, each within a cable — one has the sacred 

 monogram, the next the five wounds, another the letter £D , a mitre, 

 a pastoral staff in two pieces, and a hand raised in blessing ; jewelled 

 parts of vestments ; in the margin the cross crosslet as on the shield 

 of Long (one of whom built the north aisle) ; also a female's hand 

 and a pomegranate. South tower aisle, rose and crown. North 

 aisle (easternmost window), the word " Jacobus " on a scroll ; a 

 shield charged with two keys crossing a sword (? S. Swithun) ; 

 another with S. George's cross ; another, S. Andrew's ; a castle in 

 the border. (Second window) similar shields to those in the opposite 

 window of south aisle, but the I.H.S. and M. are crowned. (Third 



