Other links
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.