Ancient Stained Glass Secrets | Britain’s Most Historic Towns

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]That's not quite right. What I found was a woman who had written the first guidebook of Canterbury's glass actually wrote old on her um schematic of these panels and I thought, "Hey, wait a minute. This would have been in the 1890s." So, that's decades before this glass was supposedly made.

[00:00:19]>> I agree. And the part of the cathedral [music] where this window is found was built between 1182 and 1184. So, it's within 15 to 20 years of the martyrdom. Is this one of the earliest representations that we've got of pilgrims coming to Canterbury?

[00:00:36]>> They literally thought that as light passes through the windows, it became enriched with the stories that were depicted in the glass and that enriched light [music] would then enter through the eyes into the soul and make you better.