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Bay 104a & b - The Life of St Martin of Tours (c.1210)
(All images © Dr Stuart Whatling)
104a Panel 01 - Unidentified fragmentary panel 104a Panel 02 - Martin gives half his cloak to a beggar 104a Panel 03 - Miracle of the fir tree 104a Panel 04 - Martin leaves the monastery to visit his sick parents 104a Panel 05 - Martin kissing a leper 104a Panel 06 - Baptism of Martin? 104b Panel 01 - Martin receives the blood of St Maurice (mostly modern) 104b Panel 02 - Martin revives an unbaptised catechumen? 104b Panel 03 - Miracle of the golden armlets 104b Panel 04 - Unidentified scene with a king and queen? 104b Panel 05 - Christ visits Martin to return his cloak 104b Panel 06 - Unidentified scene (a rich man rending his clothes?)
Left-hand lancet (104a):
01 - Unidentified fragmentary panel
02 - Martin gives half his cloak to a beggar
03 - Miracle of the fir tree
04 - Martin leaves the monastery to visit his sick parents
05 - Martin kissing a leper
06 - Baptism of Martin?

Right-hand lancet (104b):
01 - Martin receives the blood of St Maurice (mostly modern)
02 - Martin revives an unbaptised catechumen?
03 - Miracle of the golden armlets
04 - Unidentified scene with a king and queen?
05 - Christ visits Martin to return his cloak
06 - Unidentified scene (a rich man rending his clothes?)

Overview:
The narrative sequence here is badly disturbed. These panels originally formed part of the west facade glazing but were moved to bays 105 and 106 in 1836 before being relocated to their present location in 1910. In the course of these moves, the story has lost all semblance of order and perhaps gained a couple of panels as well as a number of fragments from another window.
Perhaps the most interesting elements here are the figures in the corners of several of the panels though the disruption to the original design makes it impossible to draw any firm conclusions about these hypotactic elements.