NAVE-NORTH AISLE. 
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I. The “Heraldic” Window 1 (first from east), 1306. 
Three Lights. 
St. Catherine and Shields of Edward I. 
and his family connections. 
This window (fig. 21), the easternmost in the north aisle, is the 
earliest window in the Nave and was inserted the year before the 
death of Edward I. by Peter de Dene, canon of York. There are 
six coloured panels, each canopy of which has a cinquefoiled arch 
under a crocketted gable enclosing a trefoil. Above, it is taber¬ 
nacled, the crocketted gable of which, over a two-light window, is 
continued by flying buttresses to the side pinnacles. The diapering 
to the niche and the shafting is similar to that of the east window 
in the south aisle at St. Martin’s, Micklegate. The canopied 
panels illustrate events in the life of 
St. CATHERINE. 
B 
Christ receiving her soul. 
R 
Funeral. 
R 
Procession. 
head 
Cross Keys. 
head 
(St. Edmund). 
(The Confessor). 
Germany. 
c n 
Plantagenet. 
c n 
France. 
R 
a 
B 
-*—» 
Gj 
R 
In Prison. 
0 
0 
The Wheel. 
O 
O 
Beheaded. 
i-t 
3 
Vh 
3 
Provence. 
c n 
3 
Romans. 
co 
r - 
Castile and Leon. 
R 
CO 
0) 
B 
CO 
R 
Before Maximin. 
u 
3 
The Philosophers 
J—1 
3 
The Philosophers 
QjO 
'-C 
Converted. 
SuO 
CC 
Burnt. 
c 
0) 
R 
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Jerusalem. 
CO 
Peter de Dene. 
<u 
CO 
Navarre. 
In the lower band St. Catherine pleads for Christianity before 
the Emperor Maximin, who apparently yields to the suggestion of 
the devil perched on his shoulder by sending two philosophers to 
confute the saint, but instead, they are converted to the faith, 
and the Emperor orders them to be beheaded. 
In the upper band, St. Catherine in prison and attended by an 
angel, is visited by the Empress and the minister Porphyry, and 
1 The window is described by Messrs. Winston and Walford in the “Archaeo¬ 
logical Journal,” i860. A coloured drawing of the window has been made by 
Miss Leaf. 
