Detail, Stained glass window, sII, St Michael's Spurriergate, York
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Detail, Stained glass window, sII, St Michael's Spurriergate, York
Image: © J.Hannan-Briggs Taken: 7 Feb 2015
Early 15th C glass depicting: Left hand light: (5b) Coronation of the Virgin. (2b–4b) large figure of St. John the Baptist. (1b) The angel appearing to Zacharias. In the right hand light: (5c) Coronation of the Virgin. (2c–4c) figure (The "Woman Clothed with the Sun and with the moon under her feet" with the "Manchild" in the Book of Revelation) in a rayed mandorla (with jewelled glass) under the inscription 'cecidisti de c(a)elo Lucifer corruisti qui vuln(er)abas' (How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst wound the fallen). Beneath the mandorla, two devils and an angel. (1c) The prophet Amos with scroll 'Qui (a)edificat in c(a)elo ascensione(m) suam'(He that buildeth his ascension in heaven).
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Image Location
Latitude
53.957795
Longitude
-1.08267