Category: Issue 68
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New Conservation Project Under Way at The Burrell Collection
Stained glass conservators at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow have started an important project, and are blogging about it! Senior Conservator Marie Stumpff has been awarded a fellowship that will enable her to focus on research into and conservation of a group of three large windows from the Carmelite church at Boppard-am-Rhein, Germany. She will…
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Panels from Canterbury on Display at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Stained-glass panels from Canterbury Cathedral are soon to go on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The panels will be part of an exhibition entitled ‘Canterbury and St. Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister’ and will be shown alongside the St Albans Psalter, an illuminated book of psalms. The exhibition will…
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Appeal for Help
Many panels restored by Thomas and Drake – who worked extensively on the glass of the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, in the early and mid-twentieth century – used a milled lead with a repeating ‘X’ mark, as originally highlighted by Linda Cannon. The firm was based in London, and it is likely that this lead derived…
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Lincoln Cathedral Coverage
The British CVMA has now completed its coverage of all the stained glass at Lincoln Cathedral. It has long been the British CVMA’s goal to make all the glass at Lincoln available to users, and thanks to its indefatigable photographer Gordon Plumb and the project’s committed database manager Friederike Hammer, this has now been achieved.…
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Exhibitions at the Stained Glass Museum, Ely
‘Piecing together the Pollen Window’, 1 March – 22 April 2013 The exhibition brings together the recently conserved large round panel of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary with the angel panels that once surrounded it in the west rose window of 1863 in the Church of the Assumption in Rhyl, North Wales. Both the…
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‘Be a Pane’ – Christ Church, Eaton Appeal for Help
Christ Church, Eaton (in Norwich) has launched an appeal to raise £250,000 towards the cost of repairing its windows and improving facilities. The majority of the windows at Christ Church are in need of repair and the cost has been estimated at £65,000. In particular need of repair is the west window inserted in 1918.…
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BSMGP Autumn Conference
The British Society of Master Glass Painters has announced its autumn conference. The conference will be held 29 August – 1 September 2013 and will focus on Worcester and Gloucester. Subjects will include the Great East Window at Gloucester, the Tewkesbury choir, and Fladbury (all early/mid-fourteenth century), as well as the east window of the…
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Society of Glass Technology Conference: Call for Papers
The Society of Glass Technology calls for papers for its 2013 Conference ‘Living Glass’. The conference will be held 11–13 September 2013 at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. The conference will address science, technology and art. The scientific aspects will cover key themes from novel materials and fabrication routes to structure and properties; technology…
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The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford
Preview: British Corpus Vitrearum series: The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford, by Tim Ayers April 2013 sees the publication of the long-awaited and eagerly anticipated next volume in the British Corpus Vitrearum series: The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford, by Tim Ayers. This is the first full study of the stained…
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The Ten Commandments at the Museum-Schnütgen
This month’s feature examines panels from the Ten Commandments Window formerly at the Carmelite church in Boppard-am-Rhein, and now displayed at the Museum-Schnütgen, Cologne. The article is written by Eleanor Leahy, a graduate of the MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management at the University of York. All images by Eleanor Leahy. The…