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Sally-Beth MacLean, 31-Jan-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 01-Feb-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 01-Feb-05; Jason Boyd, 22-Feb-05; Carolyn Black, 08-Mar-05;
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2001
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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One of the focal points of the hall is the impressive late 15th c. stained glass window commemorating Henry VI and his lineage at the high end. The kings of England depicted, chronologically, are Constantine, Arthur, William I, Richard I, Henry III, Edward III, Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 31-Jan-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 01-Feb-05; Jason Boyd, 22-Feb-05; Carolyn Black, 08-Mar-05;
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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Coats of arms remaining in the tracery lights of the N window include those for the city of London, Coventry, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Chester, King Ethelred, King Alfred, Edward III, Henry VI, kings of East Anglia, Constantine, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Normandy, Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Cornwall, King Alfred's cross, Leofric, kings of Man and the city of York.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 28-Jan-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 01-Feb-05; Jason Boyd, 22-Feb-05; Carolyn Black, 08-Mar-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 11-Mar-05;
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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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Sally-Beth MacLean, site notes

Submitted by serafinm on
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 14-Dec-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 14-Dec-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 14-Dec-04; Carolyn Black, 05-Aug-05;
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There remain 3 early 19th c. windows of perpendicular design: a 2-light window on the S wall near the E end just beyond the fireplace, a 2-light window on the N wall at the W end by the present staircase and a 3-light window at the NE end. These may approximate the location of the original windows.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, site notes

Submitted by serafinm on
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 30-Nov-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 30-Nov-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 31-May-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 31-May-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 31-May-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 10-Jun-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 20-Dec-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 06-Mar-06; Sally-Beth MacLean, 06-Mar-06;
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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2 large 5-light aisle windows remain on either side of the nave, plus another at the end of each transept (not original stonework). There are 2 large 4-light windows in the E wall of each transept. None of the glass is original. The large E and W end windows are not original.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 16-Nov-04; Carolyn Black, 05-Aug-05;
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There are large 4-light windows with very simple tracery in each bay of the nave and 3 5-light windows at the E end.
The Clothworkers' aisle has a 2-light window at its E end.

Each aisle has a 3-light window at the W end, with a larger 4-light window in the W end of the nave above the tower door.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, site notes

Submitted by serafinm on
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 02-Nov-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 02-Nov-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Jun-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 14-Jun-05;
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2003
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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The remains of 2 large windows with stone seats look onto the courtyard in the S wall.
Submitted by serafinm on
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 02-Nov-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Jun-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 14-Jun-05;
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2003
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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The remains of 1 large window located high in the outer N wall.
Submitted by serafinm on
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 06-Jul-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 05-Oct-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 16-May-05; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Jun-05;
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2003
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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One of the 3 pairs of mostly late 15th c. windows with 3 lights and trefoil heads on the E and W walls.

A larger 4-light window with 19th c. tracery illuminates the upper end of the hall.
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Sally-Beth MacLean, 29-Jun-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Sep-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Sep-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 12-Oct-04; Sally-Beth MacLean, 07-Jun-05; Carolyn Black, 05-Aug-05;
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2004
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Sally-Beth MacLean

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There are 4 tall pointed arch windows with 4 lights on the N wall and 3 of the same period in the S wall. A smaller window above the SW door (blocked in the 16th c.) originally brought additional light to the dais.

The window tracery, described as 'weak' by Cherry and Pevsner, <i>Devon</i> 312, is mid-18th c., replacing the Elizabethan perpendicular style evident in the Bucks' early 18th c. engraving.

'The mouldings of the inner arches are original and from pieces of tracery found during the course of the restoration, it is likely that Holand's windows were divided into pairs of transomed lights with trefoil heads set in more gentle splays than the present ones' (Emery, 'Dartington Hall, Devonshire' 143).