Romsey Abbey retains none of its own medieval glass, though excavation around the building has produced a few samples of post-Dissolution painted glass, much of it being plain but a few pieces showing curvilinear or tendril designs.
These windows may well have been lost when Sir William Waller’s Parliamentarian troops broke into the church in March 1643, destroying the organ and woodwork. No mention is made at that time of the windows, but the troops had just come from Winchester Cathedral, where they had destroyed the windows, so it is very possible that the Abbey suffered the same fate.
Engravings of the church in the early 1800s show the windows filled with plain glass with, here and there, medallions of coloured glass. Sadly these are not clear enough to make out any design, and they have long disappeared.
The majority of the glass was placed between the 1860s and 1910, with a few additions in more recent times.
Now, walk towards the large font at the west end.
