Category: Issue 65
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Restoring the Roundels at Ickworth
Geoffrey Lane reports. Work is under way to restore St Mary’s Church at Ickworth, Suffolk, including its fine collection of Netherlandish roundels. The church stands in the grounds of Ickworth Hall, ancestral home of the Hervey family, but unlike the Hall itself, St Mary’s is not in the care of the National Trust. The Church…
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Corpus Vitrearum Volume Awarded Top Prize
The fourth volume in the Dutch Corpus Vitrearum series, Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman’s monumental Stained Glass in the Netherlands before 1795 (Amsterdam, 2011), has been awarded the Mr. J.W. Frederiksprijs for 2012, for the best publication on the applied arts in the period 2009–2011. The prize was shared jointly with Edith Frederiks’s Goud, zilver en zijde.…
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‘Charity’ Window Recreated
Barley Studio has recreated a window destroyed during the Second World War for Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. The 1830 window, by William Collins of the Strand, was in turn based on the figure of Charity in the west window of the chapel of New College, Oxford. This New College glass, installed 1778–85,…
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New Light on Medieval Stained Glass Reminder
Vidimus readers are invited to the inaugural lecture by Professor Ian Freestone at University College London on 12 March 2013. Together with colleagues based in York and Cardiff, Professor Freestone has recently completed a major programme of scientific analysis of medieval stained glass. The project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, brought together archaeological scientists, art…
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Society of Glass Technology Conference
The annual conference of the Society of Glass Technology will be held at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, 11–13 September. As usual, the conference will include sessions on the art and history of stained glass. A call for papers has been issued and final details of the conference programme will be published later this…
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Stained Glass in the Netherlands before 1795
Z. van Ruyven-Zeman, 2 vols, Amsterdam, 2011 Corpus Vitrearum volumes are published regularly, though not very frequently, and reviews of them often take a long time to appear. Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman’s Stained Glass in the Netherlands before 1795, the fourth volume in the Dutch Corpus Vitrearum series, has however already been reviewed for the journal…
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Harry the glasyer of Rye: making and replacing stained glass in churches on the Kent and Sussex borders in the sixteenth century
Gill Draper, FSA, FRHistS Events and Development Officer, the British Association for Local History This paper was originally given at the Warwick Parish Symposium in 2012. The photographs were taken by Terry Burke and Stephen Draper. Churchwardens’ accounts and a will reveal aspects of parish life in the work of a sixteenth-century glazier at Rye…