Sir Stephen Jenyns was a wool merchant from Wolverhampton, Merchant of the Staple and Master Merchant Taylor who became Lord Mayor of London for the year of the coronation of King Henry VIII. An artistic, architectural and educational patron, he founded Wolverhampton Grammar School, and took a leading part in the rebuilding of the church of St. Andrew Undershaft in the City of London.
Miniature of St. John the Baptist (Patron of the Merchant Taylors) in the wilderness: Jenyns Lectionary, fol. 27.
The Latin dedication in the book given to St. Mary Aldermanbury by Stephen and Margaret Jenyns, fol. 1v.
Interior of St Andrew Undershaft, looking east.
All Saints: The Coronation of the Virgin above, and St John the Baptist, St George (armour) and St Mary Magdalene (to anoint) with the Agnus Dei below. Left and right, St Stephen and St Margaret. Jenyns Lectionary, fol. 34.
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. Located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Birmingham, the population in 2021 was 263,700.
Image: Wolverhampton cropped
Image: Queen Street in Wolverhampton (geograph 6469114)
Image: The Queen's Building, Wolverhampton geograph.org.uk 1246451
Image: New Housing by Wolverhampton Open Air Market geograph.org.uk 372935
