E and W windows

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Sally-Beth MacLean, site notes

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Mayors and ecclesiastical dignitaries of Coventry as well as royal and noble benefactors were featured in the windows of the E and W walls but the medieval glass has mostly been destroyed by riot or over-zealous restoration. The medieval windows on the W wall were smashed during the 1780 election riots and later replaced with plain glass. Most of the remaining medieval glass in the E window was removed during the 1826 'restoration' but 2 heads were incorporated in the 19th c. glass (Thomas Arundell, archbishop of Canterbury 1396--7, and Richard Sharp, mayor of Coventry in 1433 and 1450 ), to be relocated in the council chamber in 1930. 2 angels in the tracery of the central windows of the E wall are intact. The glass in the smaller 3-light S window above the gallery (Godiva receiving the charter) is from 1926.
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