A medieval community at prayer? The stained glass of Holy Trinity, Long Melford
Wednesday 31 May 2023, 5.00PM
Speaker(s): Anna Eavis is curatorial director of English Heritage, with responsibility for the presentation of over four hundred historic sites and their collections. She is a trustee of the Corpus Vitrearum (Great Britain) and of the Leeds Castle Foundation, and is a member of the fabric advisory committees at Salisbury Cathedral and Canterbury Cathedral.
The windows of Holy Trinity, Long Melford, contain thirty large figures of men and women, most of whom lived during the 15th century. Survivals from an extensive clerestory glazing scheme dating from the 1480s, they include members of the gentry and aristocracy connected by familial, commercial, professional and devotional interests. The lecture will explore evidence for the organisation of the glazing programme and the extent to which its financing and manufacture can be related to the various groups of those commemorated.
Location: K/G07, King's Manor, University of York, YO1 7EP