Category: Issue 155
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ICON Stained Glass Conference 2026
Save the Date, Call for papers and student bursaries The Institute of Conservation (ICON) Stained Glass Committee has recently announced the date for their annual conference, to be held in York on 10th and 11th October 2026. This year the conference will look to the future, considering how the field of stained glass conservation may…
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In Memoriam: Meredith Parsons Lillich (1932–2026)
Meredith Parsons Lillich, eminent scholar of medieval stained glass, was professor emerita at Syracuse University, where she taught for forty years (Figs. 1-2). A founder of the United States Corpus Vitrearum, she was greatly beloved and highly esteemed by her American Corpus colleagues. She authored the CV volume Stained Glass Before 1700 in Upstate New…
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A request for Information
Vidimus reader Ron Fry (ronf2404@gmail.com), living in Canada, is the great-great-great-grandson of Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), the renowned Quaker philanthropist and reformer. Ron is pursuing images of his ancestor in stained glass and so far has found eight (including: All Saints, Cambridge; All Saints, High Wycombe; St Mark’s Camberwell, St Olave, Hart Street, London and the…
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A New Online Resource for William Peckitt studies
In 2019 the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, assisted by the Terry Trust, York Glaziers Trust and the Friends of the Library and Archive, acquired the personal notebook of the fifteen-year old William Peckitt (1731-95) who was to become York’s most celebrated glass-painter of the eighteenth century (https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2019/research/university-acquires-stained-glass-painter-notebook/). The hand-sewn notebook,…
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St Bernard and the Cistercians in the St William Window at York Minster
Professor Christopher Norton, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York The St William Window occupies a prominent position in York Minster overlooking the site of the high altar, where relics of the twelfth-century archbishop-saint were kept in the Middle Ages. Completed in about 1415, it was the gift of Beatrice de Roos, a wealthy widow…