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Work is also needed on some of the country's oldest and most famous stained glass, the 14th-century Jesse window in the church of St Mary the Virgin in Shrewsbury, whose scenes from the life of St Bernard include him usefully ridding his abbey of flies.

The east window of the north aisle retains much of its ancient glass, proving it to be a "Jesse" window, tracing the descent of Christ from that patriarch through David.

The “Jesse window” occurs in every style.

The new glass, and indeed the new window, was given by Mr James Chadwick of Hints Hall, near Tamworth; it is known as the Jesse window, and gives the genealogy of our Lord according to St. Matthew.

The fifth, counting from the left side, proves to be a Tree of Jesse window, a sort of pictorially genealogical tree which we will frequently encounter on our travels.