Stained glass panel
Category
Stained glass
Date
1600 - 1824
Materials
Lead, Stained
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500278.10
Summary
A narrow border section containing three diamond-shaped panels painted with seventeenth century Flemish scenes from the 'Labours of the Months'. The months depicted are May, March and January. Each is bordered by nineteenth cnetury coloured glass. (See text file for a complete breakdown)
Provenance
Much of the stained glass at Lyme Park was originally made for St Mary's Church, Disley.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 at Lyme, probably during Wyatt's remodelling, which began in 1814. Other fragments may be European in origin, dating from a range of periods; it is thought that Thomas Legh may have collected these examples during his travels abroad.
Marks and inscriptions
IANVARY (painted in black on the lower quarry)