(Photographer: Andy V Byers, Stained Glass Window, St Michael Church, Workington) via Wikimedia Commons
You will notice that Cuthbert is portrayed in this modern window as a middle-aged man with dark hair and beard. This accords with the description in the dream of King Alfred. Cuthbert carries the crozier which marks him a bishop, and wears a simplified version of the famous pectoral cross that was found with his relics and is now in the crypt of Durham cathedral.
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How I want to go back to Durham! Love this window...
ReplyDeleteme too, Jane (to both things!)
ReplyDeleteI should have noted, this stained glass is in Workington, Cumbria-- the place from which the Company of Cuthbert embarked on their disastrous attempt to take the relics of Cuthbert out of his native land to Ireland. I spent a lot of very enjoyable time on geograph.uk researching that area for the chapters in my book that take place there.