Author: Katie Harrison
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The Stained Glass Museum Open from 18 May 2021
The Stained Glass Museum has reopened to the public from Tuesday 18th May following the extended lockdown. New opening hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-3.30pm. Advance booking is encouraged. Joint tickets (to visit both Ely Cathedral and Stained Glass Museum) can be booked by clicking here. Individual tickets to The Stained Glass Museum only can be booked…
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Stained Glass Exhibition at York Minster
In June, a new exhibition at York Minster will offer the opportunity to explore the fifteenth-century St Cuthbert Window, which is among the finest extant examples of the art and techniques of medieval glaziers and stonemasons. For centuries, Cuthbert was the most important saint in northern England. During his lifetime he guided kings, abbesses and…
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Protected: Opportunity to download Leicestershire stained glass gazetteer
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New Additions to York Minster Stained Glass Navigator
After its launch happily coincided with the first UK lockdown last spring, the York Minster Navigator continues to be updated. Since the last issue of Vidimus there have been two new additions in windows n2 and s2, the neighbours either side of the infamous Great East Window. The entire east façade can now be viewed…
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Job Vacancy: Rochdale Town Hall – Stained Glass Trainee
An exciting opportunity for a Stained Glass Trainee has become available, working with the York Glaziers Trust on the Rochdale Town Hall project. The restoration of this renowned masterpiece of Gothic Revival provides a once in a generation opportunity for an individual to be trained in the specialist area of stained glass restoration work under…
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The Norwich Chamberlains’ Accounts 1539-40 to 1544-45
Edited by Carole Rawcliffe. Series: Norfolk Record Society, vol. lxxxiii. Hardback, 452 pages (Norfolk Record Society, 2019). £17.50 (members); £25 (non-members). ISBN 978-0995773622. Review article by David King Following publication of this edition in 2019, David King assesses what these accounts reveal of glaziers and glazing in sixteenth-century Norwich. Norwich is fortunate in the extent of…
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Feature
Subjects and Sovereigns: Joshua Price and the glazing of Old Harlow church Dr Penny Hebgin-Barnes with the assistance of Christopher Parkinson Old Harlow church contains the remnants of a substantial glazing scheme dating from c.1709-13. It included royal portraits and a hitherto unknown series depicting the life of Christ by Joshua Price, the precursor of…
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‘a nully tant’
This section is intended to enable authors to raise points of interest and related queries. If you would like to respond publicly to a note or query, or to submit your own, please email editor@vidimus.org The heads of the five main lights of the east chancel window of c. 1435 in Ketteringham Church in Norfolk…
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Fantasy or Reality. Stained glass secrets in the work of Jan van Eyck
Exhibition in the Great Beguinage church, Sint-Amandsberg (Ghent, Belgium) April 10 – June 27, 2021.Review by Madeleine Manderyck, translated by Margot Steurbaut. In this exhibition, you are taking a walk with Jan van Eyck through his wonderful world of paintings. You enter a medieval space enchanted with the heavenly light coming through the stained glass windows.…