Stained Glass Windows
in the Peak District

Window Details 

Ebenezer Rhodes, visiting in 1818, noted that the Chapel "is enriched with painted windows" The stained glass in one of the panes of the large gothic east window depicts The Crucifixion and Mary, St. John, etc. There is an inscription running across the whole window that dates both the glass and the chancel: ​ Samuel Rayner, writing in 1836, commented that the inscription was still legible, although part of it had been misplaced by a glazier.This glass was re-leaded in 1858 and arranged, as far as possible, after the original. No new glass was introduced and several old quarries* were taken from other windows to complete the work. *Quarries are diamond shaped glass panes, as used in lattice windows. Much more recently (2019-2020) further restoration work, by highly skilled craftsmen using traditional methods, has been undertaken to repair the chancel window. Three other chapel windows had been restored some years before. The west window and some other lights had also been filled with 14th century glass of exceptional high quality. However, in 1828 the glass was carefully cut out by person or persons unknown. Despite a reward of 100 guineas nothing more was heard of either the glass or the thieves. It has long been suggested that it was shipped to the Continent and sold on.

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