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Can you understand the pictures in this photo of a stained glass window? The image is a small part of the enormous window above the west door in Winchester Cathedral (UK). Seeing the whole window does not help to interpret the pictures. The window contains a jumble of irregularly shaped coloured glass. You might be able to pick out the odd face or hand and if you know what you are looking for, a lot of broken golden halos. The west window is not the original. The original medieval window had Bible stories and images of saints. During the English civil war, on 12 December 1642, Cromwell's soldiers destroyed many things in the cathedral, leaving it without glass in the windows and with holes in the roof. If you want to know what happened, do take a look at the dramatic story from Winchester Cathedral's website, as written for schoolchildren here in 'The story of the Great West Window' . To cut a long story short, horrified Winchester residents collected and sec...