Fragile images
Subtitle: post-medieval stained glass in Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough
By: Paul Sharpling
Contributors: Northamptonshire Record Society
Series: Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society -- Volume XLIX; Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society -- v. 49.
Publisher: Northamptonshire Record Society
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Northampton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780901275745
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Stained glass windows; Sources; History; Glass painting and staining
Description: "Fragile Images is the first complete survey of post-medieval stained glass windows in churches and other buildings of the county of Northampton and the former Soke of Peterborough. The work stresses the fragile nature of the windows currently in situ and gives a detailed account of what has been lost since the sixteenth century."
Notes: Includes section of colored plates of Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough (pages 357-420), and frontispiece.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index.
Table of contents: title: Forward; title: History of glass since the mid-sixteenth century; title: Introduction to the gazetteer; title: Abbreviations used in the gazetteer; title: Glossary of technical terms; title: Gazetteer of Northamptonshire excluding the Soke of Peterborough; title: Gazetteer of the Soke of Peterborough ; Appendices. 1. Glass makers and locations of their work; title: 2. Identification of major religious figures; title: 3. Index of subjects used in main lights; title: 4. Glossary of Latin texts and abbreviations; title: 5. Locations of war memorial windows with the names of those commemorated; title: 6. Locations of regimental badges; title: 7. Alphabetical list of arms-bearers; title: 8. A method for analysing a stained glass window.