Early Sixteenth-Century Stained Glass at St. Michael-le-Belfrey and the Commemoration of Thomas Becket in Late Medieval York.

GLASS painting & staining; CHURCH decoration & ornament; CHURCH buildings; COMMEMORATION of saints; THOMAS, a Becket, Saint, ca. 1118-1170; YORK Minster; SIXTEENTH century; HISTORY; 16TH century art

YORK (England); ENGLAND

“Of all the discoveries and new knowledge during the course of the Great Reinsertion,” Dean of York Eric Milner-White enthused in 1959, “none has been larger, stranger and more unexpected than this.” Milner-White was writing about a discovery of a series of early sixteenth-century stained glass panels, “strange” and “unexpected” in part because its panels were split between two churches. Nine panels were in York Minster, where Milner-White was in charge of the post–World War II reinsertion of the building's glass. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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