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

South chapel east window

Artist, maker and date

Medieval glaziers, c.1490s

Reason for highlighting

Fifteen scenes of the Creation, with the nine orders of angels in the tracery, all contain a high percentage of original glass. Some of the scenes were inspired by the Cornish medieval mystery plays, the Ordinalia.

Other comments

The church has the second largest collection of medieval windows in an English parish church and the narrative windows of Noah, St Neot and St George are of equal importance.

Further details: Cornish Stained Glass – St Neot – south chapel east

Highlighted dates at this location

c.1495 (Go to date search)

All artists mentioned at this location

Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque glaziers