You have to remember in the middle ages of course many people were illiterate.
Church stained glass windows history.
The oldest surviving complete stained glass window is found in the augsburg cathedral in germany.
In the morning the fire s heat had melted the sand and soda mixture.
Paul s monastery in jarrow england as the earliest known example.
The legend recounts shipwrecked sailors who set their cooking pots on blocks of natron soda from their cargo then built a fire under it on the beach.
Many histories of stained glass begin with pliny s tale of the accidental discovery of glass by phoenician sailors.
It was constructed in the 11th century and was part of a project to make the windows larger and.
The medieval church funded most of the stained glass windows of the time.
The santee chapel at lancaster theological seminary in pennsylvania is decorated with stained glass windows like the great cathedrals of europe.
Created when the monastic building was founded in 686 ce fragments of these centuries old windows were excavated by archaeologist rosemary cramp in 1973.
As expected these stained glass windows were used to adorn abbeys convents and other religious buildings with st.
Church history in stained glass.
The fairford stained glass windows circa 1500 in st mary s church fairford gloucestershire england were once known as an example of the netherlandish style of glass painting.
The stained glass windows that are familiar today did not come about until the 10 th century with the construction of gothic cathedrals.
Many of those epic cathedrals use stained glass windows to tell a story.