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ST. cuthbert’s window. 
The subjects, beginning in the third row, and up to the tracery, 
figure the birth of St. Cuthbert, his childhood, youth, life at Old 
Melrose, Ripon and Lindisfarne, and his death ; each period with 
its own miracles and events. In the thirteenth row the first 
panel illustrates his investiture by King Ecgfrith ; the second his 
consecration in York Minster on March 26th, 685, by Theodore, 
Archbishop of Canterbury, and seven Bishops. 
There was no lack of picturesque incident in the life of St. 
Cuthbert, as recorded by the Venerable Bede and others, and to 
th ese the designer of the window turned for his subjects, many of 
which would be familiar to the clergy from the mention of them in 
the breviary services, and when we see a nimbed figure of a boy 
at play, or of a monk remonstrating with crows that stole his 
thatch, or of a bishop suddenly disturbed by a vision while at an 
abbess’s table, we feel that we are at once in company with St. 
Cuthbert himself, of whom these and many like things pictured in 
this window are told by his biographers. 
The backgrounds in each light are of the same colour from the 
bottom of the window to the tracery, the order being red, blue, 
red, blue and red, only the backgrounds to the canopies having 
the colours interchanged with that of the lights below. 
Under the lowest transom are two tiers of subjects grouped 
under lofty canopies in white glass, and having niches with figures. 
The canopies above the second row have lofty tabernacle work 
in white glass with six niches containing figures of Christ, angels 
with instruments like violins, and saints. 
The window was restored in 1887-8, by Mr. J. W. Knowles, who 
made eleven new panels to fill the blank compartments, and also 
filled the tracery with new panels. The cost of renewing the 
window, stone and glass, amounted to ^610. 
For a detailed account of this remarkable window the reader is 
referred to the excellent work “ On the St. Cuthbert Window in 
York Minster,” by the Rev. J. T. Fowler, and which, consisting of 
128 pages and 2 coloured illustrations, was published in “ The 
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal ” in 1877. 
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