UK Museums

These links are to museums which contain significant amounts of medieval, and later, stained glass in their collections. The websites for The Stained Glass Museum and for the Victoria & Albert Museum include a range of images of stained glass.

The Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral
www.stainedglassmuseum.com
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
www.vam.ac.uk
The Burrell Collection, Glasgow
www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=1

Museums Elsewhere

The following links are to major international museums with stained glass in their collections. Those websites that include a particular focus on the museum's stained glass, or a range of its images, are noted.

The Getty Museum
www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/stained_glass/
Linnich, Glasmalerei-Museum
www.glasmalerei-museum.de
Site of the German stained glass museum, devoted to stained glass from the middle ages to the present day. Although the site has an English version, this was not functioning when the first issue of Vidimus was released.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/glas/hd_glas.htm
Paris, Louvre Museum
www.louvre.fr

UK Monuments

The following links are to major stained glass monuments in the UK. Those websites which include a particular focus on the building's stained glass, or a range of images, are noted.

King's College Chapel, Cambridge
www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel
Canterbury Cathedral
www.canterbury-cathedral.org
A discussion of the cathedral's stained glass, and the cathedral studios, can be found under 'History and Heritage'.
Great Malvern Priory
www.greatmalvernpriory.org.uk
Tewkesbury Abbey
www.tewkesburyabbey.org.uk
York Minster
www.yorkminster.org
York, All Saints North Street
www.allsaints-northstreet.org.uk
Information about, and images of, many of the church's late medieval windows is presented in the section entitled 'About our church', under 'Stained Glass'.

Glass Organizations

The British Society of Master Glass-Painters
www.bsmgp.org.uk
The Worshipful Company of Glaziers & Painters of Glass
www.worshipfulglaziers.com
Centre International du Vitrail, Chartres
www.centre-vitrail.org

Conservation

The Institute of Conservation
www.icon.org.uk
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
www.spab.org.uk

Heritage

English Heritage
www.english-heritage.org.uk
CADW, Welsh Historic Monuments
www.cadw.wales.gov.uk
Historic Scotland
www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
National Trust
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/
Historic Churches Preservation Trust
www.historicchurches.org.uk

Image Galleries

Foto Marburg
www.bildindex.de
This famous picture archive includes many images of stained glass. The website is in German.
Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique/Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium (Royal Institute for the Study and Conservation of Belgium's Artistic Heritage)
www.kikirpa.be
Stained glass is represented among the several hundred thousand items.
California State University
http://worldart.sjsu.edu/prt47*1$596
This link leads directly to the stained glass aspect of California State University's well illustrated World Art Site and includes a large gallery of images.
Rose window project, University of Sunderland
www.wombrose.co.uk/pages/medieval.html
This site is dedicated to the discussion and illustration of medieval rose windows.
Esslingen
http://home.bawue.de/~wmwerner/essling/english/glas01.html
Information and images relating to medieval stained glass from Esslingen am Neckar (Germany).

Other Useful Sites

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
www.durham.ac.uk/corpus/
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
www.crsbi.ac.uk
A searchable, digital archive of British and Irish Romanesque sculpture.
Lambeth Palace Church Plans Project
www.churchplansonline.org
Project by Lambeth Palace Library to digitize and provide access to church plans held in the Incorporated Church Building Society archive. The database, searchable by place, people or date, contains plans of many churches featured in the CVMA picture archive.
The Association for the History of Glass
www.historyofglass.org.uk
The Association for the History of Glass is an educational charity set up to advance knowledge and interest in the study of glass for all periods of history and in all parts of the world.
The National Galleries of Scotland
www.nationalgalleries.org
The home page of Scotland's national galleries. The National Gallery of Scotland itself houses the vidimus that features on the home page of Vidimus.