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THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
vestibule windows (fig. i). 1 The designs consist of central panels 
about i foot 9 inches in diameter, formed by combinations of 
squares and circles. The central part was often diapered and the 
borders adorned with small circles, chevrons, saltires and lozenges. 
The border became an important feature in Norman glass. 
There are a number of fine borders about n inches wide, in 
which hexagons, semi-circles—separate or intertwined—occur, 
also interlaced ovals, amidst which is foliage. In one border the 
geometrical framework is dispensed with, the design consists of a 
rising stem of upright leaves, from which on either side spring 
leaves, fruit and triple stalks bearing trefoils. 
Fig. i. Nave. Clerestory. Norman Borders. 
The central geometric compartments were eventually super¬ 
seded by a picture, at first a single figure, and afterwards a subject 
in which several figures appear, either in a panel or in a series of 
medallions. 
In the base of the central light of the “Five Sisters" window 
is inserted a Norman medallion, 2 feet 5 inches wide, by 3 feet 8 
inches high (fig. 2). 2 It formed one of a series and illustrates the 
Apocryphal story of Habbakuk feeding Daniel while imprisoned 
1 Browne’s "York Minster,” pi. cxxvm. coloured. 
2 A coloured illustration was published by the Yorkshire Architectural 
Society in December 1873. 
