St Mary’s Church in Fairford, England, preserves 28 medieval stained-glass windows.
The windows form one of Britain’s most complete surviving sets of late-medieval church glass. They were installed in the early 16th century for the rebuilt parish church and depict biblical scenes, saints, angels, heraldic devices, and other religious imagery.
Fairford’s glass is commonly associated with the period around 1500 and is often linked to workshops influenced by Netherlandish artistic traditions. Unlike many medieval glazing schemes, the set survived the Reformation and later changes with an unusually high degree of completeness.
The church is sometimes described as having the only complete set of medieval windows in an English parish church, although individual panes have undergone conservation and repair. Fairford’s windows are not the same as the famous medieval glazing at major cathedrals such as York Minster or Canterbury Cathedral; their importance lies in the survival of a coherent parish-church cycle.