Stained glass panel
Category
Stained glass
Date
1600 - 1814
Materials
Lead, Stained
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500275.4
Summary
A panel of stained glass with a seventeenth century shield within a Garter, probably that of Edward Sutton, K.G., behind this a fictive escutcheon with scrolled sides.
Provenance
The majority of stained glass at Lyme Park was originally made to be displayed in St Mary's Church, Disley. Some of this glass was removed in the early nineteenth century by Thomas Legh and re-housed in the Drawing Room and Porter's lodge probably during Wyatt's 1814 remodelling. Other fragments may be European in origin dating from a range of periods; Thomas Legh collected these on his travels abroad.
Marks and inscriptions
HONI/SOIT/QVI/MAI/[Y]PENSE (Painted around the Garter- some losses. 'Shame be to him who thinks evil of it')