The Canterbury Cathedral was built in the middle ages. It was built on the orders of the Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Augustine. In these times the cathedrals were built in the Gothic style. Characteristics of Gothic architecture are the ribbed vaults, the pointed arches, the flying buttresses and ... the stained glass windows.
In this assignment I had to design such a window. A stained glass window is made of colourful pieces of glass, which are held together in a tracery. They didn't use big pieces of glass because they weren't able to do this; the glass would simply breake. In the Middle Ages some of the stained glass windows were used to tell a story of the Bible. Due to the fact that a lot of people couldn't read, they used pictures to tell them the stories. However, there were also stained glass windows which were there to allow light to come in and as decoration. My stained glass window doesn't tell a story from the Bible either. After designing my stained glass window, I tried to colour it as colourful as possible, just as in the Gothic style. When I had finished my stained glass window, I could chose to go on with the assignment and make a tracery for my stained glass window, too. I did it, because I had some spare time left. This was easy, I could just pull over my stained glass window and cut the boxes out.
Finally, this is my tracery above my stained glass window.
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