Stained glass window
Category
Stained glass
Date
Unknown
Materials
Stained glass
Measurements
280 x 415 x 68 cm
Collection
Newark Park, Gloucestershire
NT 1547199
Summary
Stained glass oriel window on the East face of the original Tudor Lodge at Newark. The heavy stone window frame is believed to be contemporary with the original building so dates from c.1550. It divides the window into five bays, broken by two horizontal transoms, giving fifteen panels in all. The Georgian painted glass in the window would have been introduced between 1790 and 1815. Each panel in the two upper tiers comprises nine rectangular pieces, while in the lower tier there are twelve such pieces. The exception to this is the single large centre panel, which is a memorial to Lewis Clutterbuck, probably put there by his son. The white lion on blue is Clutterbuck’s coat of arms. The two quarterings represent his two wives. The shield has been identified as a memorial because in life only the current wife would have been shown. The other panels consist of a repetition of four painted and stained patterns. Most of these pieces have a clear background, but a number are opaque. These are currently scattered around the window but might originally have been arranged into a number of specific panels, perhaps to diffuse the sunlight. There has been some deterioration of paintwork, and a number of replacements to the original glass, but relatively few in relation to the fragility of work of this period, which used 'crown' glass and could be extremely thin.