Category Archives: Issue 89
Poole Hall Glass Lost in Fire
A fascinating panel of fragments, which included ten 17th-century quarries depicting soldiers performing military drill, has been largely destroyed in a fire. The panel from Poole Hall in Nantwich, which was 42cm square, consisted of an armorial of Gamul impaling … Continue reading
Catalan Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Volume Published
Anna Vila Rovira, coordinator of Volume V of the Corpus Vitrearum Catalunya, reports The long-anticipated fifth and final volume of the Catalan Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi series consists of two parts: The Stained Glass of La Seu D’Urgell Cathedral and … Continue reading
Conference Review: University of York Masterclass ‘New Voices in Stained Glass Conservation’
Celeste Flower, current Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management MA student The spring masterclass of the University of York’s MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management took place in The King’s Manor, York, on 28 February 2015. The masterclass, … Continue reading
Harry Clarke News
Church Recovers Harry Clarke Window A stained-glass panel crafted in 1962 at the Harry Clarke studios has been reclaimed by parishioners of Kildimo (Co. Limerick, Ireland), after being missing from the church since the 1970s. The panel, depicting three generations … Continue reading
Medieval Glass to be Returned to St Andrew’s Church, Heckington
Medieval stained-glass fragments are to be returned to St Andrew’s Church in Heckington. The majority of the current church building was erected between c.1310 and the 1330s, although the nave aisle, south porch, and lower part of the south transept … Continue reading
Glass Reflections: Glass in the Year of Light: Call for Papers and Registration 7–9 September 2015, University of Cambridge, Murray Edwards College
The annual conference of the Society of Glass Technology will be held 7–9 September 2015 in Cambridge and will celebrate the fundamental interactions of glass with light. One aspect of the conference will be research in glass science and its … Continue reading
