Norfolk Archaeology Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...had destroyed the greater portion of it. One entire window had disappeared within the memory of man. Portions of others had been removed and are still existing in Mulbarton Church; these were copied Engraved also in Archaological Journal, Vol. IV. p. 298. The symbolism of the figure is very distinctly described in the first chapter of the Prophet Ezekiel. and inserted in the drawings exhibited by Mr. Winter at the Yarmouth Meeting in 1856. In the clerestory were sundry figures and patterns. With one exception--that of the splendid figure of St. Michael weighing souls, and the canopies of others--the painted subjects of the lower lights had all disappeared: in the two windows in each aisle nearest the west not a vestige of colour remains. The next window on the south side contained, in the upper compartments, the history of the Fall: --1st. The Almighty is directing the attention of our first parents to the tree of knowledge. 2nd. The Temptation. The serpent, with a female human head, is coiled round the tree and holding an apple, while Eve is offering another to Adam. 3rd. The Angel of the Lord, with plumage of a red colour, holds an uplifted sword. 4th. Adam and Eve fleeing from Paradise: they wear the fig-leaves, indicative of their fatal knowledge. 5th and 6th. Represent their destined fate: Adam is digging the ground, and Eve spinning with a distaff.f The easternmost light of this window contains the fulllength figure of St. Michael weighing the souls of men against demons, of the best possible execution. The ground is a ruby diaper. The archangel has a white robe, flowered and bordered with gold, as is also his nimbus, crown, and wings. Above, is a half-length figure of an angel or saint. In one of the scales are six souls kneeling: in the other, which ..