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The lost oriel window at Kiddal Hall
This photograph appears in "A History of the Parish of Barwick-in-Elmet in the County of York" by F.S. Colman
The photograph was taken in the first decade of the twentieth century. Within thirty years (probably in 1928) the window was removed and thought to be sold and taken to somewhere in the U.S.A. - another rumour is that it was taken to Scotland.. The society would like to know where it is now. Any information on this would be much appreciated.
Colman described the window as follows:
"This window has a battlemented parapet with crocketted pinacles
and gargoyles; on the parapet, below the battlements, is a beautiful
trailing pattern of vine branches and under this an inscription,
"Orate pro bono Thome Elys et Anne uxoris sue qui
ista' fenistra' fecurent Anno Dni MCCCCC"¹²
In the cornice beneath the parapet are little shields bearing sacred
emblems, the Five Wounds, and floriated crosses, there are Tudor roses,
an ape playing a pipe, and one is a monogram, A.R., which may be that
of the actual builder."
¹ There are two versions of the inscription. T.D.Whitaker in Loidis and Elmete, 1816, (concurred by Bogg in "The Old Kingdom of Elmet: York and the Ainsty District") states that the inscription says "pro ai'bus" not "pro bono"
² The inscription translates as: "Speak for the good of (yes to support) Thomas Ellis and Anne his wife who made this window AD 1500"
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