North transept · circa 1384

The Lantern Window

Pot-metal glass, leaded by a glazier who signed nothing but a small lamp scratched into the lowest pane. For six centuries the villagers of Saint Orrin-by-the-Weir have told the hour by which colour falls across the font.

Panes

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Lead came

sixty-one metres, recast after the flood of 1921

Best seen

a quarter past four, in October

Carry the sun across the glass