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In 1844  they were exhibited at the Bazaar, St James’s Street, London.\r\n\r\nThis window was formerly located in a house in Niton in the Isle of Wight.\r\n\r\nGwilt was one of several stained-glass artists in the first half of the 1800s who experimented with the use of coloured glass in their compositions, in a return to earlier traditions. In this window Gwilt combines coloured and stained glass in a setting of clear quarries (diamond-shaped panes as used in lattice windows). Heraldry had been a popular addition to windows since the Middle Ages. Here we see arms representing the patron saints of Scotland and Ireland, Andrew and Patrick. St George represents England.","physicalDescription":"Three panels, trefoil-headed, with tracery lights above. The central panel depicts St George slaying the dragon - he wears chain mail and a white surcoat decorated with the arms of England - against a background of quarries with tudor roses. The left hand panel is decorated with a shield of the saltire cross of St Andrew or Scotland on a background of quarries decorated with thistles while the right hand panel has a similar shield with a saltire cross of red on white (St Patrick or Ireland) on a background of quarries with shamrocks.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Guilt, C. 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Made by C.Edmund Gwilt in England, 1840.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Martin Harrison <font -i>Victorian Stained Glass</font> London 1980.p.21 & plate 2(b)."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Michael Archer <font -i>English Stained Glass</font> London 1985. p.31."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"?, \"Glass Painters 1750-1850, Part II, Journal of the Society of Master Glass Painters, XIII, no.2 (1960-1), pp.390-407"}],"production":"Formerly in a house at Niton, Isle of Wight","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"George (Saint)","id":"N2524"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON\r\n\r\nIn the flanking lights of the window are the Saltires of St Andrew (left) and St Patrick (right), for Scotland and Ireland respectively.  Formerly in a house at Niton, Isle of Wight.\r\n\r\nEngland, signed and dated 1840; by C. Edwin Gwilt\r\nMuseum no. C.315-1976","date":{"text":"(PW) 2003","earliest":"2003-01-01","latest":"2003-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["C.315-1976"],"accessionNumberNum":"315","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1976,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2021MY2689"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-13","recordCreationDate":"1998-04-16","availableToBook":false}}