Stained glass panel
Category
Stained glass
Date
1600 - 1824
Materials
Lead, Stained
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500278.14
Summary
A narrow side-border containing four main quarries; two are diamond-shaped and painted with seventeenth century depictions of 'SIBYLLA CVMÆ' and 'SIBYLLA PERSICA'. Of the other two, one bears the heraldic device of Goodman, Golborn. Co. Chester, and the other is painted with a primrose.
Provenance
Much of the stained glass at Lyme Park was originally made to be displayed in St Mary's Church in Disley.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 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
SIBYLLA PERSICA (painted in black below the half-length female figure)