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the Dean, "Can your glaziers assure me that, despite its age, the glass is in good order and has been replaced without hurt?" to which Mr O Lazenby, the glazier foreman, replied, "In the name of the Minster glaziers, I, whose responsibility it has been to superintend the insertion of the five windows, do testify that it has been well and truly done." This dialogue was intended to draw attention to the glaziers' skill and their devotion to this enormous task.

351:, a suffragist, former president of the National Council for Women Workers, local magistrate and social reformer, launched an appeal to raise £3,000 from "Yorkshire women" towards the restoration of the Five Sisters window before they were returned to the Minster. She proposed its dedication in memory of "the brave women who laid down their lives in the service of their country", most of whom were nurses. Consent was given for the dedication by the Minster's 327:, about whose carers she wrote, "I was witness to the untiring devotion under great difficulties of the nurses and other women who gave themselves up, entirely regardless of their own health, in some cases with fatal results, to alleviate the suffering of the men." After the war, she noted that "when memorials on all sides were being erected to our brothers, I often thought that our sisters who also made the same sacrifice appeared to have been forgotten." 441: 374:(£50) to the widow, who, at considerable personal sacrifice, sent her whole week's pension". A booklet published to mark the rededication read "Princess Mary's keen interest thus directly...helped in a very great degree to bring about the swift response to the Appeal." In it Little made special mention of the female transport drivers "who went right up to the firing-line and the stewardesses who stuck to their posts." 684:

effort would cost £250,000 (equivalent to £6.8 million in 2023). In June 1950, in reference to fundraising for the Five Sisters window, the Dean of the Minster was quoted as saying, "We have been anxious that it should be the work of the women of Yorkshire and England, as it was after the First War." In 1950 they were reinstated, using an eight-storey electric lift.

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were commissioned using excess money from the fundraising efforts. An inscription thereon reads, "This screen records the names of women of the Empire who gave their lives in the war 1914–1918 to whose memory the Five Sisters window was restored by women" and which Little called a "Roll of honour of the Empire's female dead."

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backwards as if on hinges, revealing the most exquisite garden with wondrous flowers I had never seen before." Little noted that the garden was filled with women, and, as they approached, the window slowly swung closed, waking Little from her dream, and causing her to cry out "The Sisters' Window for the Sisters".

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With excess funds from Little and Gray's fundraising efforts ten oak screens, designed by Tapper, were added to the north side of the St Nicholas Chapel. They list the name of every woman who died in the line of service during World War I. Although not initially part of the memorial plan, the screens

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raid, a bomb fell near the Minster. It caused no damage but prompted wholesale removal of the Minster's windows as a precaution. They were stored in the cellars of various country houses near York. During their removal, it was discovered that tiny holes had developed in the glass of the Five Sisters,

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with five sisters all working on embroideries. He wrote that "the device was of a complex and intricate description, and the pattern and the colours of all five were the same." At the end of the story, after one of the sisters had died, "they sent abroad to artists of great celebrity in those times,

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Another Minster first was the inclusion of the craftspeople who had been responsible for the restoration work playing a formal role in the rededication service. Mr W J Green, the Clerk of Works, whose father had been responsible for preserving and replacing the glass after World War I, was asked by

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Before being reinstated the windows required further restoration, which was part of an effort to make safe the entire west front of the Minster, to avoid its being "permanently defaced by gantries, erected as a necessary protection to passers-by against stones falling as they crumble away". This

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at York Minster and seeing two young children in the centre of the North Transept, beckoning and pointing towards the window. "I moved towards them and then recognised my two little sisters, both of whom had died as children. As I followed the little pointing finger, I saw the window move slowly

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at a dedication service on 24 June 1925, together with an inscription reading, "Sacred to the memory of the women of the Empire who gave their lives in the European war of 1914–1918". The service was attended by 800 relatives of the women whose service was being commemorated, together with

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The scaffolding was fully removed in March 1951, giving the first unobstructed view of the windows since 1935 when work had been carried out to repair damage from the death watch beetle. The windows were subsequently featured as part of the 1951

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feeding Daniel in the lions' den. The design includes ivy, symbolising love and sacrifice, and maple, symbolising victory. It probably came from a medallion window and was most likely moved into the Five Sisters window during the 17th century.

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physics department during the 1970s it was discovered that three pieces of blue glass were medieval soda glass, rather than the expected potash glass. Prior to this it was thought that almost all medieval stained glass in Europe contained

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Immediately following the unveiling, a prayer was said, including "John Romain and all those who laboured with him". At the end of the service, a guard of honour was composed of 70 female VADs from the North Riding of Yorkshire

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from across the British Empire also held services at the same time, or as close as possible to the time of the dedication, including in Toronto, Winnipeg, Adelaide, and locations in Tasmania, South Africa and New Zealand.

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revealed that, the previous year, a 30"x 30" panel of 14th century English stained glass had sold at auction for £18,500. From this, he extrapolated that the glass of York Minster was worth "about £73,000,000" .

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RA, it was discovered that a layer of plain green glass, which had been added to protect the windows, had cracked, together with the surrounding stonework. The protective glass was replaced in 1908, with the

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writing that "It would be dangerous and, indeed, impossible to attempt to touch the ancient glass itself. It is too fragile, but it can be thoroughly protected and preserved from further decay."

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The Five Sisters were built c.1250-70. Their creation was funded in part by York's Jewish community, notably the wealthy Aaron of York, leading to the windows being called "the Jewish window".

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which, as they grew, were causing the glass to "scale off" until only a thin shell of colour remained. This meant that the windows were in urgent need of full restoration.

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A rededication service was held on 9 December 1950, attended by 2,400 people, involving a massed choir of 250 singers and a choir of one hundred singers representing the

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In the 16th century, upkeep of the Five Sisters was financed by Cross Keys Farm, an estate belonging to the Church of York. The windows were spared destruction under

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Within nine weeks of launching the appeal 32,000 women from far beyond just Yorkshire, from across Britain and the Empire, had donated £3,500. Donors ranged from "

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In 1847, York Minster's historian, John Browne, published contemporary coloured drawings of the windows, before the impact of dirt and corrosion discoloured them.

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and... caused to be executed in five large compartments of richly stained glass a faithful copy of their old embroidery work." The story was illustrated by

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featuring a grisaille design comprising 100,000 pieces of glass. Each light measures 16.31m high and 1.56m wide, separated by columns of stone and

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Cities from the North of England also financially supported the restoration: bronze plaques under the window of the Minster's Choir record that

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The window was restored between 1923 and 1925 and rededicated to all the women of the British Empire who were killed in the line of duty during

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Having secured sufficient funds, the Five Sisters were restored between 1923 and 1925, overseen by the Minster's consulting architect,

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Cox, GA and Gillies KJS (February 1986). "The X-ray fluorescence analysis of Medieval durable blue soda glass from York Minster".

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Cox, GA and Gillies KJS (February 1986). "The X-ray fluorescence analysis of Medieval durable blue soda glass from York Minster".

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after her death, recording a dream she had had involving the Five Sisters window. In the letter, she described entering the

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The lead holding the glass in place was also in poor condition and needed urgent repair. The owner of ruined 13th century

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G W O Addleshaw (1967). "Architects, Sculptors, Painters, Craftsmen1660-1960 whose work is to be seen in York Minster".

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G W O Addleshaw (1967). "Architects, Sculptors, Painters, Craftsmen1660-1960 whose work is to be seen in York Minster".

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in the roof of the transept over the Five Sisters window. During extensive repairs the windows were boarded up.

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Historical and Scientific Survey of York and district: Prepared for 75th meeting of the British Association

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representatives from all branches of women's war services. Before the unveiling, the Duchess said,

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glass in the world. It was built c.1250–1260 and is located in the north wall of the north

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donated lead that had been stripped from the abbey's windows and stored sometime after the

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Kathy Lavezzo (March 2011). "The Minster and the Privy: Rereading the Prioress's Tales".

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The windows were once more removed and placed underground in 1939 at the outbreak of

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In November 1921, Little wrote a letter, instructing that it be printed in

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After being reinstated, the newly restored windows were unveiled by the

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of York, an enamel glass painter, made some repairs to the windows.

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as "the largest ancient stained-glass window in the British Isles."

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The Grove Encyclopaedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, Vol. 1

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Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service for India

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During an exploratory analysis of the window's glass by the

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Eboracum; or the History and Antiquities of the City of York

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At the bottom of the central light is one panel of earlier

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We also served: The forgotten women of the First World War

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John Browne's coloured drawings of the Five Sisters (1847)

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There are 1,513 names listed on the screens, including

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In 1922, while speaking at a fundraising meeting, the

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and Chapter, and by the Army, Navy, civilian nurses,

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window contains the largest expanse of 13th century

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Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service

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