Detail of easternmost south window (c.1475), Chapel, Browne's Hospital, Stamford, Lincolnshire. | Photo: Peter Hildebrand
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Detail of easternmost south window (c.1475), Chapel, Browne's Hospital, Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand
Detail of easternmost south window (c.1475), Chapel, Browne's Hospital, Stamford, Lincolnshire. | Photo: Peter Hildebrand
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Detail of easternmost south window (c.1475), Chapel, Browne's Hospital, Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Browne's Hospital, Stamford, Lincolshire

Address
Browne’s Hospital, 4 Broad Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire, PE9 1PF
Recommended by
Penny Hebgin-Barnes (10)
Highlight
Easternmost window of south wall of the chapel
Artist, maker and date
Workshop headed by either John Glasier of Stamford or John Wymondeswalde of Peterborough, c.1475
Reason for highlighting

The window contains substantial remains of the Chapel’s original glazing scheme including large figures of the Trinity, St John the Baptist, St James, a sainted king, angels and several female saints, all probably representing the Virgin Mary with various attributes. It was a sumptuous and expensive scheme using a wide palette of colours. The figures wear rich garments with coloured jewels leaded into the hems and are set on elaborately patterned backgrounds beneath vaulted canopies containing angels and supported by side-shafts pierced by niches containing lions and eagles.

Other comments

The almshouse founded in the centre of Stamford in 1475 by wealthy wool merchant William Browne and his wife Margaret Stokke is open to the public. The glazing of the Audit Room upstairs, which postdates Browne’s death in 1489, is less expensive than that of the Chapel. It depicts figures of Kings David and Solomon, St Paul and the philosopher Seneca accompanied by scrolls bearing texts. The shields of Browne and Stokke, William Browne’s merchant’s mark and the stork rebus of his brother-in-law Thomas Stokke appear in various windows of the Chapel, Audit Room and Entrance Passage. The Hospital glazing was restored in 1870 and cleaned and rearranged by Dennis King of Norwich in 1966-7.

Sources:
P. Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, Oxford, 1996, pp. 288-96.
R. Marks, ‘A Late Medieval Glass-Painting Workshop in the Region of Stamford and Peterborough’, Crown in Glory, Norwich, 1982 pp. 29-39.
J.P. Hoskins, P.A. Newton & D. King, The Hospital of William Browne, Merchant, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Stamford, n.d.

For a virtual tour see  https://virtualtour.browneshospital.co.uk/

Artist/maker notes

The workshop headed by either John Glasier of Stamford or John Wymondeswalde of Peterborough was active from the latter part of the 15th century until the beginning of the 16th. Its output survives at sixteen sites in the area around Stamford and Peterborough, including The Collegiate Church of Holy Trinity, Tattershall.

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