Category: Issue 114
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Job Opportunity at York Glaziers Trust
The York Glaziers’ Trust, Britain’s oldest and largest specialist stained glass conservation studio, is seeking to recruit a full-time stained glass conservator on a 12-month maternity cover contract. The person appointed will join a dedicated team working on the imple-mentation of York Minster’s 20 year strategic plan for stained glass conservation and a variety of…
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Closure of Highcliffe Castle
Highcliffe Castle, home to an internationally significant collection of stained glass span-ning over seven centuries, from the 1100s to the Victorian period, closed on October 31st for five months. The closure is part of an extensive restoration project at the Dorset castle, and will see the creation of a new conservation studio, allowing the resto-ration…
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November Stained Glass events at Lancashire Archives
This November, Lancashire Archives will celebrate the achievements of Abbot & Co of Lancaster, and delve into the archives of stained glass manufacture in Lancashire from the medieval period to the 20th century. Tuesday, 21st November 2017, 6.30 – 7.30pm: Heather Davis will present ‘God’s Glaziers’, focusing on Abbot & Co of Lancaster. Saturday, 25th November…
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The Godmersham Occasional Lecture 2017
Friday, 24th November 2017 at 7.30pm Leslie Smith, FSA, Hon. Librarian of the BSMGP will give a talk on, 20th Century Stained Glass in Kent Churches, in aid of the Friends of Godmersham Church. This visual tour of Kent churches will chart the eventual demise of the large Victorian stained-glass firms such as Kempe and…
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Worshipful Company of Glaziers announces The Stevens Competition 2018
The Glaziers’ Company is now inviting entrants to its prestigious annual Stevens Archi-tectural Glass Competition. The competition, running since 1972, this year requires entrants to design two window to be installed in a dance studio at Eastbourne College in East Sussex, and is open to student glass artists and designers and those who have commenced…
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The Victorian Society Lecture
Wednesday, 8th November 2017, 6.30 – 8.00pm Martin Harrison, a leading Victorian stained glass specialist, will present a lecture enti-tled, Architects, Artists, Craftsmen and 19th-century Stained Glass, discussing some of the is-sues that arose when artists became directly involved in the design and making of stained glass. The lecture will take place at the Art…
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And Then The Heaven Espy: The Windows of Norwich Cathedral
By Dr Gudrun Warren with photographs by Mike Dixon. 128 pages, 64 colour illustrations, The Fitzwalter Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-9957969 Norwich Cathedral, once the church of Norwich’s great Benedictine Priory, is one of the best-preserved Romanesque cathedrals in Europe, with its exceptionally long aisled nave and eastern axial arrangement of apsidal chapels. It retains many…
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A Panel from the Black Prince’s Chantry at Canterbury Cathedral Rediscovered?
Following the recent purchase at auction of a mid-fourteenth-century stained glass panel depicting the Coronation of the Virgin, the panel’s new owner, Andrew Rudebeck, and Leonie Seliger, head of the stained glass conservation department at Canterbury Cathedral studios, debate the potential origins of the panel and, in particular, the question of whether it could possibly…