Beware! Victorian replacement panels are found in all of the miracle windows. One way to spot them is to look at the colours of the glass. The acidic green and blue-green glass and the ochre-coloured yellow glass manufactured by the Victorians are quite different from the softer greens and brighter yellows of the glass made in the Middle Ages.
Window nIII had lost four of its panels before Austin started his restoration in 1857. To make the window appear complete, Austin created four replacement panels, all of them slightly altered copies of imagery found in the neighbouring window to the west, numbered nIV. Three of these substitute panels now reside at the top of the window. Austin arranged them to make it look as if they tell a story about an ill woman at Becket’s tomb who drinks the Becket relic water and gives thanks for her cure. We do not know what was originally portrayed in the lost medieval panels.
Observers have frequently mistaken the panel at the very bottom of nIII as original. In fact, it is another Austin replacement. The medieval panel he copied is WINDOW/PANEL REF AND LINK HERE. Notice how, among other alterations, he changed the recovered man’s head. Instead of a bearded layman, he pictured a tonsured monk, no doubt with the idea of making this panel look like it was a part of the ill monk Hugh’s story.