Stained glass panel
Category
Stained glass
Date
1600 - 1824
Materials
Lead, Stained
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500278.4
Summary
A narrow side-border containing five main quarries; two are diamond-shaped and painted with seventeenth century depictions of 'SYBYLLA SAMIA' and 'SIBYLLA ERITR[AE]'; two show the heraldic devices of Hearne and Smith of Withcote and the central quarry is decorated with an eighteenth century marsh bird.
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Much of the stained glass at Lyme Park was originally made for St Mary's Church, Disley.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
SYBYLLA ERITR[AE] (painted in black below the lower female figure)