Bay 115 - St Eustace / Infancy of Christ
Index to panels:
A1 - Knight/Donor (with arms of the de Beaumont Family)
A2 - St Eustace's vision of Christ between a stag's antlers
A3 - St Eustace and his family receiving baptism
A4 - Eustace refusing to worship a pagan idol
B1 - Female donor of the de Beaumont family
This window, occupying the first clerestory bay on the east of the north transept, seems to have been a donation of the de Beaumont family, whose arms are shown in the donor panels at the bottom of each lancet. Otherwise, the left hand lancet depicts a highly condensed version of the St Eustace legend (see bay 43), while the right shows three scenes which are normally described as being from the life of Christ, though it might be more correct to say they are three of the 'Joys of the Virgin' (Annunciation, Nativity & Epiphany). The choice of narratives are thus highly gendered to suit the two donor figures - for the male donor, shown in full battle armour on his charging horse, the left lancet depicts a saintly knight whose example he might emulate, whilst the donatrix is shown beneath the ultimate female role-model (here shown in episodes that all stress her role as mother).
Sadly the window is quite corroded, hence the less than perfectly legible state of the photographs.
