Category: Issue 144
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Ports Past and Present
Two publications by Dr Martin Crampin, both resulting from the Ports Past and Present Project are have appeared this year: Martin Crampin, Stained Glass in Fishguard (Aberystwyth: Sulien, 2023). Fig. 1 Martin Crampin, Stained Glass on Holy Island, Anglesey (Aberystwyth: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2023). Fig. 2. Having been…
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The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire and Shropshire. By Robert Walker. Soft back, 287pp, over 200 colour illustrations. Eardisley, Logaston Press, 2023, £25, ISBN 9781910839546.
Reviewed by Sarah Brown, University of York This beautifully produced and modestly priced gazetteer and guide, by retired buildings conservation officer and stained-glass enthusiast Robert Walker will be a welcome addition to any library (Fig. 1). The scope of the survey is the diocese of Hereford, an area encompassing the historic counties of Herefordshire and…
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Exhibition Reviews
Reviewed by Jasmine Allen, director and curator, The Stained Glass Museum. Whilst news that traditional stained glass making is now categorised as an endangered craft broke this summer, we bring reviews of not one but two solo exhibitions of contemporary stained glass in high profile galleries, one by well-established pioneering artist Brian Clarke, and the…
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Welsh Saints from Welsh Churches, by Martin Crampin. Hardback, xvi + 256pp, approx. 585 colour illustrations. (Talybont, Ceredigion : Y Lolfa Cyf, 2023) £35. ISBN 9781912631162.
https://www.ylolfa.com/products/9781912631162/welsh-saints-from-welsh-churches Reviewed by Adrian Barlow Welsh Saints from Welsh Churches is full of stained glass, but it is not primarily about stained glass. It is a scholarly and richly illustrated book about the saints of Wales –a work both of hagiography (writing about saints) and of hagiology (studying their history, cults and representation in visual…
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Alice Chaucer and the Glazing of the North Aisle at Cawston, Norfolk
David J. King FSA Norfolk has more sites having medieval stained glass than (probably) any other English county, but there are no complete windows, and, as in so many locations in England, in most places the glass is fragmentary. At Cawston church, apart from a few isolated in-situ eyelets, the medieval glass…
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The ‘Cameo Process’: William Meikle and Sons’ acid-etching technique developed in Glasgow, Scotland
Charlotte Roden, independent stained glass conservator The ‘Cameo Process’ is an acid-etching technique developed at the turn of the twentieth-century which eliminated the need for glass paint on stained glass windows. Pioneered by the Glasgow artist J. T. Stewart, an employee of Meikle and Sons, it provided a solution to the paint loss issues that…
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Stained Glass from Irish Sea Port Towns
Martin Crampin National and regional borders can be a great help in containing and categorising studies of visual culture. In practice, borders are permeable, just as regional entities – even islands and countries – are not as homogenous as is often assumed. In the same way, looking at stained glass in neighbouring areas across borders…
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A Grotesque Glass-Blower?
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 During a recent visit to the wonderfully refurbished Musée de Cluny (the musée national du Moyen Âge) in Paris, Dr Joseph…
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Mike Dixon
Vidimus was sad to learn of the death of Mike Dixon (Fig. 1), well known to many as the photographer of the Stained Glass of Norfolk website. Corpus Vitrearum researcher and author David King has also worked closely with Mike for many years and in due course his images will be celebrated in David’s forthcoming…
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The Plowden Medal 2023
The Royal Warrant Holders Association has announced that this year’s Plowden Medal winner is Professor Sarah Brown of the York Glaziers Trust and University of York. Established in 1999 to commemorate the life and work of the late Hon. Anna Plowden CBE (1938 – 1997), the Plowden Medal (Fig 2) was endowed by the Royal…