How Did They Build That activity sheets
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Download activity sheetsImagine you are a medieval pilgrim coming to The Cathedral for the first time – how does the stained glass make you feel?
Stained glass windows are expensive and very time consuming to produce. In medieval times they helped to show that the Cathedral was a wealthy and important building.
Some people think that in the past stained glass helped to tell the bible stories when ordinary people could not read the bible for themselves. In Canterbury Cathedral, some of the Stained glass windows honour important individuals such as Kings, Queens and Saints. There is also a very famous series of windows that depict some of the miracles (an extraordinary event taken as a sign of the power of God) of Saint Thomas Becket.
The way we make stained glass windows is almost the same as it was in medieval times.
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