1/4 Britains Most Fragile Treasure 

I love any documentary that Janina Ramirez features in. She is so passionate about Medieval art and culture. Thanks for making this video available!

Refurbishment was complete September 2015, you can visit the Cathedral in York and see it now.

Beautiful artwork.

🎨 Thank You!

Lovely!

Good video, except the wow factor could have been brought home to the viewer if the producers had used music of the cathedral and period of the glass. You Brits have a great church music tradition which continues today. Why not include it? Why use ersatz music? The video medium cannot provide us with the smells of the cathedral, but the audio is very possible. The choral works of Leonel Power, John Dunstaple, and Rbt. Fayrfax, to name a few should be heard not a the new age stuff which has been generated.

stunning

i fucking love art

Correction glass is definitely not the most fragile substance in the world.

It's a great documentary but I wish the could have explains the makeup of the glass material itself and some of the techniques. How they got grades in the reds. Ground glass before acid etching, flint glass the make up recipe of the glass paints. How it was fired. I have info but I simply want to know more. Due to the lethal ingredients glass today is so much softer the nasty stuff less so. But its pretty bad even now. Old glass is much harder I fired glass from 1880 it's the background parts of the panel on my avitar profile photo. A test to see if it coped with high firings and age test. Hardly any distortion or shrinking. Grinding the edges took more effort. Yet Lambert glass the orange part is much softer. Flint high content glass I imagin would be very hard and could be fired to almost 1000 degrees give or take. Working down the temp scale from trace lining to silver stain. Modern example of firing temps. Tracing lines toning 620 to 670 degrees the longer it is held at temp it can be made glossy or brough up and down for a Matt finish. Being an oxcide it can be fired as high as my kiln will go highest I have fired 700 degrees. But with repeated firing at say 650 degrees I find the glass shrinks. I fire at the lowest range then do a final polish firing at the higher temp to reduce the shrinking issue. With modern softer glass. Enameling can vary per colour. 560 to 575 degrees Silver stain 520 to 540 degrees again the longer it is held the darker deeper the yellow goes to gold. Personal experimentation tests before a project noting firing temp and time held etc. So you know exactly how it will turn out. I would love to know how they fired flint glass in medieval times. I can say with certainty that the repair sections would have been made with modern glass (high quality of course) but not fired as it would have originally been. The very make up of the glass. Was it made with a high flint content? Medieval glass is biggest influence in the way I lead and paint. It frees me up rather relying on glass colour and lead. The Burrell Collection in Glasgow Houses some fine medieval stain glass. I can't wait to see. Glasgow responsible for the resurgence / renaissance of stain glass in the UK. Aged four I wanted to be a stain glass artist. I am 40% out of 100% where I want to be quality and skill wise. Everything I know is in my head not written down.

She's quite bundled up

Why are the Ste Chapelle windows shown in part 1 not in Ste Chappelle? For what reason were they removed?

She is SO clever, and very pretty

get it

Beautiful but the entire history of whos world? this has been done before in Vedic the vast majority

She's gorgeous....

kool

Music drives me crazy. Stopped watching after 3 mins.

I really enjoy this series. I hope the make-up team made the presenter Dr. Ramirez a little less Goth-looking 😆 and wardrobe less covered. While her appearance does not diminish the content and substance of the message, I got distracted by the eye-make up... Other than that, it's a great series. 👍🏻