Thesixteenth-centuryglazingfromHerkenrodeAbbeyinBelgiumconstitutesthemostsignificantbodyofFlemishstainedglassintheworld.Intheearlynineteenthcentury,anEnglisharistocrattookadvantageofthesecularizationofthemonasteriesontheContinenttopurchasetheabbeychurch’sglazing;glassfromtheabbess’sprivatechapelwasacquiredbyanotherEnglisharistocrat.Thisaccountoftheglazing,theresultofauniqueandfruitfulcollaborationbetweentheCorpusVitrearuminGreatBritainandBelgium,hassectionsonthethreelocationsinEnglandwheretheglassisnowlocated-Lichfield,Shrewsbury,andAshtead-prefacedbyahistoricalintroductiononHerkenrodeAbbey.ItbenefitsfromextensiveresearchintoartisticpracticeintheLowCountries(forart-historicalcontext),drawsontherichdocumentationintheLichfieldCathedralarchives(fortheglass’sreceptioninEngland),andpresentstheinsightsgainedduringrecentconservationoftheglassatLichfieldCathedral(fortheglazing’sexecutionandcondition).
