Arms of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (1527? – 1585)
Category
Stained glass
Date
1400 - 1824
Materials
Lead, Stained
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Lyme, Cheshire
NT 500279.9
Summary
A panel of stained glass displaying the arms of Sir Francis Russell KG. 2nd Earl of Bedford (1527-1585) surrounded by a Garter and surrmounted by an Earl's coronet. The seventeenth century shield, quarterly of 8, is bordered by an oval surround of coloured and acid-etched nineteenth century glass. Other fragments include heraldic devices, yellow-coloured foliage and fragments of fifteenth century roundels.
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Much of the stained glass at Lyme Park was originally made for St Mary's Church, Disley.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.