Category: Issue 54
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Books
‘Something Quite Exceptional’: Hugh Easton and the Battle of Britain Memorial Window for Rolls-Royce ‘Something Quite Exceptional’: Hugh Easton and the Battle of Britain Memorial Window for Rolls-Royce, by Adam Goodyear, 86 pages, b/w & colour illustrations, softcover, ISBN 13: 978 1 872922 46-1, The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, 2010, £7 plus pp available from Ian…
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Ford Madox Brown exhibition in Manchester
An important exhibition of the work of the Victorian Pre-Raphaelite artist and stained glass designer, Ford Madox Brown (1821 -1893), has opened at the Manchester Art Gallery in northern England. Madox Brown joined William Morris’s design company (Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.), in 1861. Over the next thirteen years he produced about 115 designs for…
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Damage at Howden Minster
Two windows at Howden Minster (Yorks) containing fragments of fourteenth-century glass have been damaged by vandals. The police are investigating. The fragments include the arms of Antony Bec (c. 1245 – 1311), Bishop of Durham 1283-1311.
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Stained glass at Reims Cathedral
A major international conference will be held at Reims on October 21 and 22 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of this famous French Cathedral. Topics will include the art and architecture of the Cathedral with Professor Madeline Caviness, and Dr Sylvie Balcon-Berry (University of Paris) speaking about the stained glass. For more information visit the…
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York Glaziers Trust website
The York Glaziers Trust has unveiled a new website here at www.yorkglazierstrust.org. The site will enable readers to follow the development of the restoration of the Great East Window of York Minster over the next five years. It also includes information about other recent and ongoing projects involving the Trust such as conservation of the…
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Painton Cowan Lecture
Painton Cowan will be speaking on ‘Lesser known medieval masterpieces in England and France’ at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, on 1 November at 6.30 pm. The lecture is sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass. For more information contact The National Glass Centre at info@nationalglasscentre.com. For more information about…
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Conservation Research Fellowship
The Clothworkers’ Foundation is offering a grant of up to £80,000 to a UK public institution to enable an experienced conservator (employed by that institution) to pursue a research project for two years. During the sabbatical the post will be covered by an externally recruited junior conservator. The grant will meet the salary and on-costs…
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Angels and Demons
An exhibition of drawings and stained glass by two of England’s leading contemporary artists and conservators, Jonathan Cooke and Helen Whittaker, has opened at Lotherton Hall, Aberford, Leeds. It will run until 31st December. The exhibition is open 10am-5pm, Tuesdays – Saturdays. For information about visiting Lotherton Hall see the website.
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Name that Roundel!
This month’s puzzle comes from the parish church of St Lawrence at West Wycombe (Buckinghamshire). It shows several figures in acts of prayer inside a richly decorated temple with a statue in a niche to the right. In the middle ground a man is kneeling and looking straight ahead. At the right of the panel…
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Features
The Pepysian Sketchbook Roger Rosewell Although the seventeenth-century naval administrator and politician, Samuel Pepys (1633 –1703) is best known for his engrossing diaries, he also left a legacy of great importance to stained glass historians. For among the papers he bequeathed to Magdalene College, Cambridge, was a remarkable book of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century drawings, some…