Briefly, they depict: the Virgin Mary with St Ursula and Mary Magdalene. The Ursula picture is unique in this country; the legend of the Invention of the Holy Cross by St Helena, in ten compartments; the legend of St Robert of Knaresborough and the deer. The first compartment is entirely new (reconstructed in the restoration - see below), but based on a sketch by Elias Ashmole who visited Morley in August 1662.

The windows originally had heavy wooden shutters, but these were removed at the end of the 18th century due to decay; this led to heavy pilfering of glass. The glass had deteriorated so much by 1829 that the two westernmost windows had disappeared except for a few fragments, and the panels of the others were scattered about the church, often upside down or on their sides. In 1847 Rector Fox and Mr T. Osborne Bateman decided to restore the remaining three at the latter's expense. This was done by W. Warrington of Upper Berkeley St., London, who was then working at Elvaston Castle for the Earl of Harrington. Tracings of the glass as found are extant. Bits of broken glass not used in the restoration were made into a mosaic window and put in the south aisle behind the organ. The Victorian writer George Bailey supplies more details of the windows’ construction and the method used to paint them.

There are said to be more St Mary’s Abbey windows (or at least, the Perpendicular frames thereof) at the east end of the south aisle and on the south wall of Chaddesden Church, and some fragments in Hathersage vicarage. A Miss Wright of Brookfield gave some to Rev. H. Cottingham of Hathersage Church in the 19th century, where they were placed in the upper tracery of one of the windows in the north aisle; they have now been removed to the vicarage. They consist of an ape seated, an owl, a griffin, an eagle's head and wings, all yellowish. There used to be fragments in a box in the 'museum' and bits in the windows of Dale Abbey cottages but this had all disappeared by the Second World War.

Various bits of the abbey stonework have survived. These include the arch of a porch: this now forms the south door at Morley Church; in style it is deep cut Early English, probably 13th century, with mouldings similar to those of the chancel windows, and most skilfully wrought; the jambs may belong to some other arch. Also in Morley church is an early Perpendicular canopy, and there is another in Risley churchyard: this is a 15th century, early Perpendicular and beautiful stone canopy of a niche and must have belonged in a doorjamb. It is now used as a flower vase. In the south foundation of "Mr Wright's barn near the windmill," (possibly Ashtree Farm) is a carved stone with double chevron and beak mouldings; this seems to have formed part of the side of a doorway, and, since it has been dated to around 1160, may be a remnant of the Augustinian canons' work. Some more abbey stone makes up a terrace at Risley Hall, built by Sir Henry Willoughby, and the house on the south side of the Church Walk at Stanton by Dale has at least 16 mason's marks and was probably built of Abbey stone by Michael Willoughby, who bought the Abbey in the 16th