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THE ANCIENT GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. 
I he white panels in the base are insertions diapered with the 
foliage and fruit of the Oak, and have a border gules bearing the 
White Rose of York. In the central light is an angel bearing a 
shield gules , keys in saltire or and argent —an artistic treatment of the 
arms of the minster. The west light contains a quarry bearing 
the letter S under a crown. 
VII. South Aisle (first from east). Three Lights. 
St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. 
This window (fig. 26) appears to be in memory of Walter de 
Gray, Archbishop of York, and builder of the South Transept. It 
depicts incidents in the life of the sainted bishop Nicholas. 
The three quatrefoils are filled with glass dated 1782. The 
canopies consist of a trefoiled arch under a finialed gable en¬ 
closing a trefoil, above rises a short tabernacle with side pinnacles, 
and spire rising to the shields on the white panels. The sides to 
niche and canopy have niched buttresses with pinnacles. 
In the eastern upper panel a priest is finishing Mass by reading 
the beginning of the Gospel of St. John. On each side stands an 
acolyte with large lighted candle. A nobleman is kneeling at the 
altar. The central light shows the bishop attended by a cross¬ 
bearer, and before him stands a man who has brought his son, a 
cripple. The bishop cures the cripple, who is depicted casting 
away a pair of crutches. The eastern panel shows a nobleman 
girded with a sword, presenting to the bishop a casket which has 
been passed to an attendant who carries it on his arm. 
G 
Y 
G 
Thomas of Brothevton. 
St. George ? 
Plantagenet ? 
(Edward I.) 
B 
B 
B 
Nobleman 
St. Nicholas 
The Nobleman’s gift 
supplicating St. Nicholas. 
cures a cripple. 
to St. Nicholas. 
B 
B 
B 
Three children 
St. Nicholas pleading 
Reprieve. 
in a tub. 
for a prisoner. 
The east lower panel shows the bishop and the three children in 
a tub. The central light shows the bishop pleading before a king 
for a prisoner who is barefooted and has his hands tied with a 
cord. Behind the king is an attendant, who raises one hand, and 
