The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire. Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 8. By Penny Hebgin-Barnes. 297mm. Pp ccvi+412, 30 col pls, b&w ills throughout. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2009. ISBN 9780197264485. £99 (hbk)

摘要

Following the publication of two monographs on the medieval glass of specific buildings (Ayers 2004; King 2006) the CVMA returns to the Summary Catalogue Series with this, the second county volume by Dr Hebgin-Barnes. Her Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire (1993) covered 650 parishes, whilst rural and sparsely populated medieval Lancashire has less than a tenth that number. With this in mind, a joint volume with Cheshire was originally envisaged, but so much unknown material was uncovered that it was decided that both counties deserved separate volumes. However there are many affinities between the two. These include styles of glass, the patrons who commissioned windows and, as Richard Marks has suggested, various workshops located in the north west supplying the local regional demand for glass. For these reasons the ‘Introduction’ will be common to this and to the forthcoming Cheshire volume