Stained Glass Walking Tour
Caroline Swash, stained-glass artist and author of The 100 Best Stained Glass Sites in London (2015), will lead a stained-glass walking tour in Putney and Fulham on Tuesday 31 May 2016. For more information, see January’s Vidimus.
Tickets: £30 (£25 Friends of the Museum) can be purchased from the museum’s website.
Annual Lecture 2016 – London
Fig. 1. Detail of 10 Green Bottles, Alice Temperley and John Reyntiens collaboration for Gordon’s Gin, 2013.
The stained-glass artist John Reyntiens will deliver the museum’s annual lecture on Thursday 30 June 2016, 6.15pm, at the Art Worker’s Guild, London. In this talk John will reflect on his career in stained glass and talk through his substantial portfolio of new designs, restoration and conservation work, including his recent Diamond Jubilee Window for the Queen in Westminster Hall (2012). This is a rare opportunity to hear from one of Britain’s leading stained-glass artists, and not to be missed.
Tickets: £15 (£12.50 Friends of the Museum) can be purchased from the museum’s website.
Heraldry Study Day
‘Mitres, Martlets and Mantling’: a heraldry study day organized by the Stained Glass Museum with Chloë Cockerill will take place on Saturday 10 September, 10.30am 4pm, at the Ely Cathedral Education and Conference Centre.
Heraldry is all around us – in both ecclesiastical and secular buildings – and can often provide vital information about the history of a building and the people associated with a place. This study day is intended as a basic introduction to the language and art of heraldry in all its various forms. Open to all, it will help you to recognize, interpret and accurately describe a variety of heraldic emblems. The day will be in split into two halves: a morning session of two informal introductory lectures – the first on how to identify and describe shields, colours, furs and the royal arms, and the second on how to understand arms that demonstrate peerage, and family pedigree. In the afternoon there will be a heraldic tour of Ely Cathedral to look at ecclesiastical arms and many other examples of heraldry in situ, before a visit to the Stained Glass Museum to see some fine examples of heraldic stained glass in both the museum’s main gallery and reserve collection.
Chloë Cockerill is a former Regional Development Manager for the Churches Conservation Trust. She is a popular lecturer for NADFAS, the National Trust, and many historical associations throughout Britain, with a special interest in heraldry and fabulous beasts. She has written articles and guide books on churches and heraldry and is an Ely Cathedral guide and Friend of The Stained Glass Museum.
Tickets: £40 (£30 for Friends of the Museum). Prices include lunch (all dietary requirements catered for). Please bring your Friends membership card or cathedral pass with you. You can book online, by telephone, or by post. Please make cheques payable to the Stained Glass Museum.
Exhibitions
• Geoffrey Clarke: A New Spirit in Stained Glass (Stained Glass Museum gallery), 1 April – 1 July 2016
• Paradise and Other Places, Mick Abbott (Ely Cathedral in conjunction with the Stained Glass Museum), 14 June – 15 July 2016
• Sheryl Vaughan: Cast Glass (museum shop), 1 March – 30 April 2016
• Juliet Forrest: Landscapes (museum shop) 6 May – 10 June 2016
