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Excerpt from The Archaeological Journal, Vol. 70: Published Under the Direction of the Council of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Encouragement and Prosecution of Researches Into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages; March 1913 The painted glass in St. Michael's, the parish church of ashton-under-lyne, Is an extremely fine though some what damaged example Oi the work of the middle ages. The glass, which portrays incidents in the life of St. Helen, was originally the glazing of the great east Window of six lights, and as such is referred to in a manuscript of 1586, but, subsequent to a fire which occurred in the year 1821, the stonework of the east Window was entirely altered, becoming a window of seven lights, and in this the Old glass was reinserted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.