North chapel east window (c.1490s), Church of St James the Great, St Kew, Cornwall.

Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Detail of north chapel east window (c.1490s), Church of St James the Great, St Kew, Cornwall.

Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Church of St James the Great, St Kew, Cornwall

Address

Church of St James the Great, St. Kew, Bodmin, Cornwall PL30 3HB

Recommended by

Michael Swift (10)

Highlight

North chapel east window

Artist, maker and date

Medieval glaziers, c.1480-1500

Reason for highlighting

An outstanding medieval narrative window of twelve scenes of Holy week, recently fully restored by Holy Well Glass.

Other comments

Few windows of the Passion of Christ survive in as complete a condition anywhere in the world. Great Malvern Priory in Worcestershire had two such windows, both more fragmentary than here, while Renaissance-style versions survive at the Church of St Mary, Fairford in Gloucestershire and King’s College Chapel in Cambridge.

Further details:
Cornish Stained Glass – St Kew – north chapel east
Cornish Stained Glass – ‘St Kew restoration’ (Mattingly & Swift)

Highlighted artists at this location

Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque glaziers (56)

Highlighted dates at this location

c.1495 (Go to date search)