All Saints North Street, York - The Shrine and Parish Church
Medieval parish church famed for early fifteenth-century stained glass and an anchoress's cell.
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This guide to All Saints North Street in York stands you in front of a stained-glass window made around fourteen ten, where a bearded man feeds the hungry and gives drink to the thirsty. It follows Nicholas Blackburn, merchant and mayor, and the family who may have put him there, and asks whether medieval charity in glass was piety, publicity or both. Best heard in the north aisle, facing the Acts of Mercy window.
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