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If I have used this detail of the Burne-Jones window in Huish Episcopi before, please forgive me, I have not been able to give Flickr the attention I would have liked for a few weeks.

CHETWODE
St Mary and St Nicholas **
Early medieval glass

Hidden in rolling farmland near the site of a large Augustinian priory is the best medieval glass in Buckinghamshire. Nave and transepts have gone, leaving just this fragmentary chancel as a parish church. A priory house is tacked onto its side and a curious west tower placed where the crossing would have been. The interior is minster-like, tall and battered but with a spectacular sanctuary. This is dominated by tall deep-set lancets, five to the east and three to the north and south. These are complemented by an enriched Early Gothic sedilia in the south wall, its middle bay pierced by a door.
The glass in the south windows (moved in 1842 from the east windows) dates from the 13th and 14th centuries. It includes some of the earliest heraldic glass in England, showing the arms of Henry III. The middle panel of the central lancet has a bishop, possibly St Nicholas, and above him St John the Baptist, ‘swaying' in a manner common in glass of this period. His garment is broadly folded and suggests familiarity with contemporary glass at Westminster and in France. The pictures are set as roundels in abstract grisaille (or semi-clear) glass. When the Victorian, William Holland, came to set glass in the east window he used the same motifs and proportions to excellent effect.
Apart from this, there is little to detain us at Chetwode.
The organ, given more prominence in the nave even than the pulpit, has a pretty Gothic case of 1842. A curiosity is the mini-transept in the north wall which contains two ancient family pews, one still with its fireplace. The occupants of these homes-from-home can hardly have seen the preacher, let alone the altar.

(Simon Jenkins: England’s Thousand Best Churches)

CHETWODE
St Mary and St Nicholas **
Early medieval glass

Hidden in rolling farmland near the site of a large Augustinian priory is the best medieval glass in Buckinghamshire. Nave and transepts have gone, leaving just this fragmentary chancel as a parish church. A priory house is tacked onto its side and a curious west tower placed where the crossing would have been. The interior is minster-like, tall and battered but with a spectacular sanctuary. This is dominated by tall deep-set lancets, five to the east and three to the north and south. These are complemented by an enriched Early Gothic sedilia in the south wall, its middle bay pierced by a door.
The glass in the south windows (moved in 1842 from the east windows) dates from the 13th and 14th centuries. It includes some of the earliest heraldic glass in England, showing the arms of Henry III. The middle panel of the central lancet has a bishop, possibly St Nicholas, and above him St John the Baptist, ‘swaying' in a manner common in glass of this period. His garment is broadly folded and suggests familiarity with contemporary glass at Westminster and in France. The pictures are set as roundels in abstract grisaille (or semi-clear) glass. When the Victorian, William Holland, came to set glass in the east window he used the same motifs and proportions to excellent effect.
Apart from this, there is little to detain us at Chetwode.
The organ, given more prominence in the nave even than the pulpit, has a pretty Gothic case of 1842. A curiosity is the mini-transept in the north wall which contains two ancient family pews, one still with its fireplace. The occupants of these homes-from-home can hardly have seen the preacher, let alone the altar.

(Simon Jenkins: England’s Thousand Best Churches)

The organ, given more prominence in the nave even than the pulpit, has a pretty Gothic case of 1842. A curiosity is the mini-transept in the north wall which contains two ancient family pews, one still with its fireplace. The occupants of these homes-from-home can hardly have seen the preacher, let alone the altar.

(Simon Jenkins: England’s Thousand Best Churches)