Arms of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland KG (1558-1605)
Category
Stained glass
Date
1400 - 1824
Materials
Lead, Stained
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Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500279.8
Summary
A stained glass panel displaying the arms of Sir George Clifford KG., 3rd Earl of Cumberland. The shield, quarterly of 8, has an oval surround that incoporates a date plaque, two female heads and male masque united by scale-patterned purple ovals; all surrmounted by an Earl's coronet. The seventeenth century shield and surround is bordered by an oval of nineteenth century glass.
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Much of the stained glass at Lyme Park was originally made for St Mary's Church, Disley.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
1586 (painted in black on a fictive date plaque beneath the shield)