Detail, Stained glass window, sIII, St Michael's Spurriergate, York

Image: © Julian P Guffogg Taken: 7 Feb 2015

Glass depicting the nine orders of angels. Left hand light: (5b) The Trinity with inscriptions 'laudam(us)' and 't(ri)nitas' in head of third light, (4b) '[Sera]phin', bareheaded. (3b) 'Troni' wearing crowns, middle angel holding scales. (2b) 'D(omi)n[a]cio(nes)', in full armour with crowns on their helmets, middle angel holding sword. (1b) 'V[ir]t[u]tes' with doctors' caps. Right hand light: (5c) fragments including Lamb of God and inscriptions. Each main panel contains three angels set under flat canopies of several different designs. (4c) 'Cherubin', bareheaded, each of outer two holding open book, (3c) Powers, in full armour with orles on helmets, middle one possibly originally beating devil with birch rod, fragments of the inscription in head of third light; a fragmentary inscription 'Iosa[(?)phat]', with facial initial, is probably from another window. (2c) 'Princ[ipatus]', wearing diadems with crosses, (1c) '[Arc]hangeli' and 'Angil[i]', bareheaded with their belts hung with alternately bells and leaves, middle one holding trumpet(?). The outer two lights (a and d) have been cropped in this image. Reference:'Parish Church of St. Michael Spurriergate', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5, Central (London, 1981), pp. 40-43

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