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    Britain's Most Fragile Treasure

    Britain's Most Fragile Treasure

    2011

    1:00:19

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    Britain's Most Fragile Treasure

    Genre

    Documentary
    History

    Plot

    Historian Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of a centuries-old masterpiece in glass. At 78 feet in height, the famous East Window at York Minster is the largest medieval stained-glass window in the country and it was the creative vision of a single artist - a mysterious master craftsman called John Thornton, one of the earliest named English artists. The East Window of York Minster is far more than a work of artistic genius, it is a window onto the medieval world and the medieval mind - telling us who were once were and who we still are, all preserved in the most fragile medium of all.

    Director

    Paul Tilzey

    Writers

    Janina Ramirez,

    Stars

    Janina Ramirez, Tim Ayers, Sarah Brown, Tony Cattle, Keith Jones,