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STAINED GLASS WINDOWS
Sir Thomas Blennerhassett, Knight
Monumental Brass of 1531 at Frenze
represented in a painted glass panel of 1820
St Peter's Church, Nowton
near Bury St Edmunds, Co.Norfolk
Church of England - Diocese of Norwich |
click on image to enlarge
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The church of St Peter, Nowton is known for 84 Flemish painted glass roundels of the 17th and 18th centuries that are incorporated into the windows. In 1820 these roundels were set within new glass panels, reputedly the work of Samuel Yarington of Norwich (above right is the magnificent west window - click on image to enlarge). A brass tablet in the church tells us: |
This Church
was embellished & decorated with Painted Glass,
collected from the Monasteries at Brussels.
an Organ erected, with a Peal of Six Bells.
at the Expense & Gift of
Orbell Ray Oakes, Esqr
The inhabitants inscribe this tablet as a memorial of his liberality.
1820. | |
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Four vertical windows, two on each side of the nave, were found to be too tall for the available glass to fit well. When the window panels were being made four small glass panes were inserted horizontally, one at the base of each window, these painted with images taken from Norfolk monumental brasses as illustrated c1816 by the drawings of John Sell Cotman. Three of the four 1820 panes of glass survive, including that for Sir Thomas Blennerhassett, Knight, 1531. |
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St Peter's Church, Nowton, Norfolk
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Sir Thomas Blenerhasset Knt, Frense Ch. Norf'k
Drawn, Etched & Published by J.S.Cotman, Yar[mouth] 1816
Print from a drawing by John Sell Cotman (later pub. in his “Sepulchral Brasses of Norfolk & Suffolk”, 2 vols, 1839)
of monumental portrait brass on the tomb of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett, Knt (d.27-June-1531)
at the church of St.Andrew, Frenze, Co.Norfolk
[COTMAN vol.1, frontpiece pl.63, with notes on p.35] |
Cotman's drawing of 1816
reproduced in painted glass
on a window panel of 1820
at St Peter's Church, Nowton
(in north wall) | |
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the accompanying brass for his
wife Margaret who d.1416 is
not represented in glass
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Sir Thomas Blennerhassett, Knt d.1531
see detail above
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Sir Ralph Shelton, Knight d.1424
The helm behind his head is not on the original brass - this is copied from the helm of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett |
Alice Shelton, nee Uvedale,
wife of Sir Ralph Snoring
clear glass - the original glass is lost |
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windows: 1 - in south wall |
2 - in north wall opposite 1 |
3 - in south wall |
4 - in north wall opposite 3 |
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The brasses depicted in these four window panels are described in "Brass on Glass" [BOG]
a paper by Jane Houghton and Janet Whitham
published in Monumental Brass Society Bulletin 115, September 2010, pp.294-295 |
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