Category: Issue 62
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New Curator Sought for the Ely Stained Glass Museum
The Stained Glass Museum based at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire is seeking a new Curator. Founded in 1972, the museum houses one of the most important collections of stained glass in Britain and in 2010–11 had almost 16,000 visitors. It also organizes educational workshops and visits, and hosts a series of ground-breaking lectures. Part-time and…
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New Exhibition in Coventry
A new exhibition featuring medieval glass from the pre-Second World War Coventry Cathedral will open on 6 August at the city’s Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Jordan Well. Called Faces in Glass Live it features some of the thousands of pieces of mainly fifteenth-century glass that have been discovered in recent years and…
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New Shire Book on Stained Glass
A new history of stained glass in English churches has been published in the popular Shire Books series. Written by own indefatigable News Editor, Roger Rosewell, the book traces the history of stained glass from its origins in Anglo-Saxon England to the present day. Separate chapters describe Norman glass; developments in the thirteenth and…
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Stained Glass from Chicksands Priory
Chicksands Priory in Bedfordshire was founded as a Gilbertine house in c.1150. It is one of the best surviving examples of thirteenth-century monastic architecture in England and is certainly one of the few such structures that are still occupied. The Gilbertines, the only monastic order of English origin, were founded by St Gilbert of Sempringham,…
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Reminder: Study Day about the Medieval Stained Glass in the Savile Chapel at Thornhill (Yorkshire)
A study day on the important fifteenth-century glass in the Savile Chapel at the parish church of St Michael and All Angels, Thornhill (Yorkshire), will be held on 13 October 2012, 11am – 3pm. The glass in the east window of the chapel includes a rare depiction of the Heavenly City. As reported in Vidimus…
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York Master-Class
A master-class in glass-painting will be held in York 24–26 September this year. ‘Painting on Light: Glass Painting Master-Class’ with Jonathan Cooke, ACR, will take place in a custom-designed stained glass workshop at the University of York’s historic King’s Manor building, opposite High Petergate. The master-class is limited to eight participants, allowing a high level…
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The Brandiston Hall Roundels
Last month we reported the reappearance of the fine series of English medieval roundels depicting eight Labours of the Months that used to be in Brandiston Hall, Norfolk, and which had not been seen since the mid-1980s, when the house was sold. Four of the roundels have now been acquired by Norwich Castle Museum,…
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Books
S. Oosterwijk & S. Knöll (eds), Mixed Metaphors: The Danse Macabre in Early Modern Europe, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011, hardback, 443 pages, £59.99. This book consists of an innovative and informative collection of articles that examine the visual and textual motif of the Danse Macabre from its emergence in the late fourteenth century. Competently edited…
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Important Discoveries at Hatton church
Roger Rosewell New discoveries have been made at Holy Trinity Church, Hatton, Warwickshire, about 12 miles south-west of Coventry. Twelve sixteenth-century demi-figures in the west window of the church, previously described as being from a Tree of Jesse scheme, have now been identified as Old Testament kings and prophets, originally from the cloister windows of…