Stained glass panel
Category
Stained glass
Date
1600 - 1824
Materials
Lead, Stained
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500278.5
Summary
A narrow rectangular section that incorporates a large number of elements; the central image being a portrait of Peter Legh IX, with the Legh arms to either side. Other fragments also include heraldic devices, crests, Sibyls, and seventeenth century musicians (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Much of the stained glass at Lyme Park was originally made for St Mary's Church, Disley.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
SIBYLLA EVROPA (painted in black belOw the lower Sibyl depicted in the right hand border of this section)