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Maria Lau, 03-Mar-11; Maria Lau, 03-Mar-11; Maria Lau, 03-Mar-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 08-Mar-11;
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2011
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Paul MacLean

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View of the NW bay window at the high end of the hall.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 25-Feb-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 08-Mar-11;
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14 windows light the hall, the largest being the SW bay window with 5 lights on 4 levels at the high end. Another, smaller bay window with 4 lights on 2 levels provides balance at the NW end. There are single windows at the high and low ends, each with 6 lights on 2 levels. The N and S walls each have 5 windows with 4 lights on 2 levels.

The windows include some 16th and 17th c. heraldic glass which was removed in 1939 and therefore survived the bombing.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, site notes

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Sally-Beth MacLean, 06-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 06-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 06-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 06-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 09-Sep-10; Maria Lau, 10-Sep-10; Maria Lau, 10-Sep-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 14-Dec-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 28-Jan-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 25-Feb-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 25-Feb-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 08-Mar-11;
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2008
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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Exterior view of the windows on the N wall of the hall.

Submitted by serafinm on
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 30-Mar-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 31-Mar-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 14-Dec-10; Jason Boyd, 17-Dec-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 06-Jan-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 25-Feb-11; Maria Lau, 03-Mar-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 08-Mar-11;
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2011
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'Two Bay windows opened, from the east and west ends of the raised dais at the upper end, under delicately moulded stone arches. These arches, of very gracious curve, were carried on corbels in the likeness of winged angels displaying shields. Each Bay had two storeys of mullioned lights, their cills being carried down nearly to the floor, and the heads enriched with flat pointed arches at both the transom and upper levels. South of the bays were three windows on either side of the Hall, each of three lights, the cills of which were about ten feet from the floor' (Simpson, <i>Old Hall</i> 33--4).
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Paul MacLean

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The bay windows at N and S ends each have 4 lights on 2 levels on the outer side with 2 lights each on 2 levels on the sides of the bay.

Heraldic glass from the original hall was removed and placed in the E bay window of the new hall in the 19th c.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 29-Mar-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 29-Mar-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 29-Mar-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 14-Dec-10; Carolyn Black, 10-Jan-11;
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' The windows were small and Gothic in Character. There was a large window at the east end. It also had short windows to the north which later overlooked some chambers of one storey called Twisden's Building, and long windows to the south, through which light came without interruption. The east window, when Dugdale saw it some time before 1666, was filled with coats of arms...There were also on the north side twelve coats of arms, and on the south twenty coats of arms.'
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Hart, Inner Temple 6--7

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Sally-Beth MacLean, 24-Mar-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 24-Mar-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 24-Mar-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Apr-10; Sally-Beth MacLean, 06-Jan-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 25-Feb-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 25-Feb-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Mar-11; Maria Lau, 08-Mar-11; Maria Lau, 08-Mar-11; Maria Lau, 08-Mar-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 08-Mar-11; Sally-Beth MacLean, 08-Mar-11;
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19xx
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There is a large reconstructed bay window at the NE end by the dais with some original heraldic glass; there are 4 lights on the N side and 2 each on 3 levels on the sides of the bay. 4 more 3-light windows on the N wall and 4 windows with 3 lights on 2 levels facing on the S wall are also original. The E and W gabled ends of the hall each have a large 5-light window on 2 levels.
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Gray's Inn Library

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View of some of the heraldic glass in the hall.

By kind permission of the Masters of the Bench of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 09-Dec-09; Sally-Beth MacLean, 09-Dec-09; Sally-Beth MacLean, 09-Dec-09;
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There were double pairs of lofty lancet windows with a quatrefoil window in plate tracery above on the N and S walls of each bay. Above each was a large round window with either a large quatrefoil or possibly a cinquefoil.
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Rady et al, 'Archbishop's Palace' 8--9

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Sally-Beth MacLean, 29-Jul-09; Sally-Beth MacLean, 29-Jul-09; Gord Oxley, 03-Dec-09; Sally-Beth MacLean, 09-Dec-09;
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2009
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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View of the windows in the S aisle.

There are 6 3-light clerestory windows on both N and S sides. The W windows of both aisles have 5 lights and the windows of chapels at the E end of both aisles have 5 lights each. The W window in the tower has 5 lights.

The chancel was separated from the nave by a 3-storey rood screen until 1561. There are 2 clerestory windows on the N and S walls of the chancel; the E window has 7 lights on 2 levels.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 15-Oct-08; John Geck, 19-Oct-09;
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2009
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John A. Geck

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The bay window still has mid-16th c. heraldic glass, a dated coat of arms from Elizabeth I's reign, and 17th c. portraits of Charles I, Henrietta Maria and the Founder.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 18-Jun-08; Gord Oxley, 14-Jul-08; Sally-Beth MacLean, 23-Sep-08; Sally-Beth MacLean, 23-Sep-08;
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2008
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Paul MacLean

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St George and the dragon, one of the medieval painted glass panels in the S aisle.

9 windows were added in the 14th and 15th c. (the 2 SW windows are smaller than the rest). The 5-light W window is Decorated but the glass is Victorian. There is a large 4-light window at the W end of both aisles. Medieval painted glass remains in some windows, mostly at the E end of the N and S aisles.