Category: Issue 80
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The Wildman at Belsay
A new display that explores the mythical Wildman has opened at Belsay Hall, Northumberland. A part of European folklore since the medieval period, the Wildman – a creature from forests and mountain wildernesses on the edge of civilized society – was adopted as a symbol of the Middleton family of Belsay Hall from the fifteenth…
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Corpus Vitrearum 27th International Colloquium, York, 7–8 July 2014
A limited number of places are available for the two days of lecture sessions at the 27th International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum, which take place at the Tempest Anderson Hall of the Yorkshire Museum on 7 and 8 July 2014. The fee is £100 for the two days, and includes the lectures with translation…
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Events at The Stained Glass Centre
Spring Lecture The 2014 spring lecture will take place on at 7.30 pm on Thursday 22 May, at St Martin-cum-Gregory, Micklegate, York. The lecture, entitled ‘“He is not Here …”: First World War memorial stained glass and the fragile art of remembrance’, will be given by Dr Neil Moat, independent scholar, lecturer and author. The…
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American Glass Guild Conference
The annual conference of the AGG will take place 26 – 30 June 2014 at Bryn Athyn College, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. The event will feature a workshop in which Tom Kupper and Dean Beal of Lincoln Cathedral will demonstrate methods and approaches for conserving and preserving medieval stained glass. Using medieval stained glass from the…
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Exhibition of Medieval Seals
An extraordinary display of medieval seals – including one belonging to King Henry VII – has opened to the public [Fig. 1]. The exhibition, entitled ‘Small Objects of Power’ is being held at Berkshire Record Office, Reading, and admission is free. Included in the exhibition, which celebrates a very personal form of medieval art, are…
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Cork Church Appeals for help
A landmark church in Cork city has launched a fund-raising drive to aid urgent repairs. St Vincent’s Church in Sunday’s Well, which opened in 1856, has had preventative maintenance work carried out to weatherproof the south face of the church, but a report has shown serious deterioration in the upper windows and surrounding plaster work.…
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The Windows of Lambeth Palace Chapel: A Guide
By Lyndall Hacker and James Thomson, with a foreword by the archbishop of Canterbury and photography by Brian Ellis FRCS, London, 2014, 111 pages, numerous colour illus. Available in print from BLURB, or as a free PDF here. This publication is a welcome introduction to the modern stained glass in the chapel of Lambeth Palace,…
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French Masterpieces in Shiplake Church
As events commemorating the centenary of the First World War unfold across Europe, placenames familiar to stained glass historians, such as Rheims and Ypres, are called to mind. Saint-Omer in western France is one such placename. The town is well known, on the one hand, for being the general headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force…