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A huge window, located opposite the St Cuthbert window SE6052 : The St Cuthbert Window (s.VII), York Minster, probably produced by John Thornton of Coventry who was responsible for the East Window.
Donated by the De Ros family of Helmsley Castle around 1421.
95 panels commemorate William Fitzherbert, Archbishop of York, originally elected in 1141, but a series of disputes quashed his appointment in 1147. Having moved abroad for several years, he was re-elected and made a triumphant return, and a large crowd of people caused the bridge over the River Ouse to collapse, but miraculously nobody was killed. He later died and was proclaimed a Saint and a shrine erected in the Minster. A series of miracles followed, some of which were depicted in the upper panels of the window (similar to the Beckett miracles at Canterbury).
The window depicts many scenes from St William's life, and is a superb example of medieval glass painting.

York Minster contains 128 windows that illustrate the arts and craft of glass painting over a period of 800 years.
Much of the ancient glass came from Germany and was transported across the North Sea and up the River Ouse. Mediaeval glass varied in quality and the poorer glass has suffered from erosion. A distinctive style of glass painting developed known as the York School, and was used in windows across the whole city. Windows were often given by Donors, who sometimes portrayed themselves in the window.
The windows here are often referenced by an old numbering system (normal numbers) as well as the new notation of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi which is now standard, denoted by Roman numerals prefixed by position in the church.

York Minster is a Gothic cathedral and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The Minster is the seat of the Archbishop of York, the second-highest office of the Church of England, and is cathedral for the Diocese of York.
The first church on the site was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 AD. A stone structure was completed in 637 AD, since which the Church has undergone many refurbishments as well as serious damage including a fire in 1984 which destroyed the roof in the south transept.
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