To mark the Feast Annunciation Gordon Plumb posted on the Medieval Religion discussion group a selection of the many images he has of images of the Annunciation in medieval stained glass:
Ashbourne, St Oswald, Derbyshire, nXVII, 1a mid 13thC.
Shelton, St Mary, Norfolk, nII, A3-A4:
Bourges Cathedral, Bay 25, Annunciation window in Jacques Coeur chapel:
and detail:
Cologne Cathedral, St Stephen's Chapel, sX, 1b, formerly in Cologne Dominican Church:
Attleborough, Assumption of the BVM, Norfolk, wI, G1, Mary from Annunciation:
Leicester, Jewry Wall Museum, Roundel, late 15thC.:
Dorchester, Abbey church of St Peter & St Paul, Oxfordshire:
Oxford, Merton College Chapel, west window:
York, St Michael-le-Belfrey, I, 2b:
Newark, St Mary Magdalene, Nottinghamshire, sII, 2b:
Winchester College Chapel, Thurburn's Chantry, south window, D1-D2:
East Harling, St Peter & St Paul, Norfolk, I, 4a:
Stamford, St Martin, Lincolnshire, I, tracery:
Wrangle, St Mary & St Nicholas, nV, 2b-2c, lower parts of Mary and Gabriel from Annunciation:
Clavering, St Mary & St Clement, nIII, A4-A5, fragmentary Annunciation:
Ely, Stained Glass Museum, Annunciation from St John the Baptist, Hadzor, Worcestershire - figure of Gabriel by John Hardman & Co, who also restored the glass:
Bourges Cathedral, Bay 230:
Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, Lorraine, Bay 100, 1-5a, 1-5b:
Chartres, Cathédrale Notre Dame: Bay 150:
Lichfield Cathedral, nII, 1, Herkenrode glass showing Annunciation with Visitation in centre background:
Metz, Cathédrale St Étienne, Bay 19,1240's
Rivenhall, St Mary & All Saints, Essex, I, 1b:, glass originally from St Martin, Chenu, Sarthe:
Cambridge, King's College Chapel, Chapel J, window 37, The Unicorn Hunt, an allegorical form of the Annunciation:
Professor Madeleine Gray added what she describes as the stunning east window at Gresford - lots of Victorian reconstruction but at its heart a late medieval meditation on Mary's relationship with the three persons of the Trinity (including a depiction of her as her son's daughter).
