Life, death and art. The medieval stained glass of Fairford parish church. A multimedia exploration.(Review)

Life, death and art. The medieval stained glass of Fairford parish church. A multimedia exploration. Edited by Sarah Brown and Lindsay MacDonald, foreword Joanna Trollope. Pp. xvi + 175 incl. 74 black-and-white plates + 36 colour plates + CD ROM. Stroud: Sutton Publishing/Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, 1997. [pounds]40.0 7509 1523 4

Tell me, you anti-saints, why brass

With you is shorter lived than glass?

And why the saints have scap't their falls

Better from windows than from walles?

...then, Faireford, boast

Thy church hath kept what all have lost;

And is preserved from the bane

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