Rose Window - Gallery Showing Stained Glass

Gallery Showing Stained Glass

  • France, Chartres Cathedral, ancient transept window under restoration.

  • France, Sens Cathedral, transept, showing Flamboyant window incorporated into a large composition.

  • France, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, the Apocalypse in Flamboyant tracery.

  • England Lincoln Cathedral, the Bishop's Eye. Fragments of ancient glass in a Flowing Gothic window.

  • Germany, Memorial Church (Gedaechtniskirche), Speyer.

  • Sweden, Oscar Frediks Church.

  • Catalonia, Santa Maria del Pi, Barcelona.

  • Peru, the Presidential Palace

  • England, St Matthias, Richmond. architect G. Scott, glass William Wailes

  • Germany, the chancel window of Himmelsfahrskirche, Dresden.

  • Mallorca, Palma, geometry and flowers in the Levantine style.

  • Australia, the Waratah window, St Bede's, Drummoyne, Sydney, by Alfred Handel.

  • United States, window over the altar in Boston University's Marsh Chapel

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