The Jesse Window at Wells Cathedral has taken fourth place in the Association of English Cathedral’s Divine Light poll to find the Nation’s favourite stained glass window.
The Jesse Window dates form c.1340 and has seven lights with twenty-seven panels in lustrous symmetrical Curvilinear scheme in the high gable at east end of quire, c.7.5 × 6.5 m
We have an amazingly varied collection of glass, from windows made up of fragments in the Lady Chapel, to small detailed medieval traceries in the quire aisles, to tiny windows using silver stain, to dramatically coloured glass from Rouen and a magnificent Edwardian River of Water of Life. High up at the east end of the quire shines one of the Cathedral’s greatest treasures: the Jesse Window.