The art of stained glass is the only medium that is observed through refracted light, rather than the reflected light by which we view paintings, sculpture and photographs. This quality of stained ...

Hundreds of fragments of a medieval stained glass window have been returned to a Lincolnshire church after nearly 80 years. The 14th Century window from St Andrew's Church in Heckington was ...

Stained glass reflects the centrality of religion to medieval life. Wealthy donors paid for artworks to be put into churches; for the glory of God and to remind their contemporaries to pray for them.

Westminster Abbey has very little medieval ... of glass from the 18th century to the present day. In the windows at the west end of the aisles of the nave are composite figures made of fragments of ...

From satirical apes, symbolising fraud, to the phoenix, representing immortality, medieval stained glass windows were a ... to help pupils learn about art and art history. When conservation ...

Hundreds of fragments of a medieval stained glass window have been returned to a Lincolnshire church after nearly 80 years. The 14th Century window from St Andrew's Church in Heckington was removed in ...