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Lye Church

Lye is especially rewarding for medieval stained glass, preserved across the choir’s eastern and southern windows. Its oversized Gothic choir also makes an unfinished rebuilding scheme visible.

Lye Church

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Why go

The choir windows belong to the fourteenth-century enlargement itself, so the coloured images remain closely connected with the architecture built to hold them. Scenes of Christ’s childhood and Passion occupy the east window; saints appear to the south. Outside, the smaller Romanesque nave shows how much more extensive the rebuilding was intended to be.

What to look for

  • The choir portal’s childhood-of-Christ carvings are attributed to the Egypticus workshop.
  • An inscription dates the altarpiece to 1496.
  • A carved twelfth-century stone sarcophagus is embedded in the church wall.

Useful to know

  • Confirm interior access with Fardhem-Garde parish before making the stained glass the reason for your journey.
  • Compare the nave and choir proportions outside, then follow the different subjects across the choir windows.

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