Gersen noticed that the back wall was paneled with painted glass.
The windows were replaced at the time with painted glass and the portraits moved to a higher level.
I balanced there, my arms shaking uncontrollably, preparing to break the painted glass with my forearm.
There are also some 15th-century painted glass, a stone effigy of one of the abbots and a Jacobean canopied pulpit.
There is info available on the artists, and some more unusual stuff for sale, such as painted glass and traditional sand paintings preserved on canvas.
These rooms had windowpanes of painted glass that showed pictures which occasionally altered, telling stories, if any had observed them.
The windows of the church were filled with painted glass, six panels of which have been discovered.
The church itself contains fine examples of 17th-century painted glass.
Features of interest include the rood screen, the pulpit of continental origin, the 16th century bench ends and the old painted glass in the east window.
The mood is light and contemporary, with pastel walls bedecked with painted glass.