Category: Issue 88
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Canterbury Stained-Glass Exhibition
Twelfth- and thirteenth-century panels from the Great South Window of Canterbury Cathedral, which have been on tour in Los Angeles and New York (see Vidimus 72 and 77) have now returned to the precinct. Following on from the success of past exhibitions at home and abroad, visitors will soon have a second chance to see…
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New Guide to Durham Cathedral Launched
A new book on Durham Cathedral, entitled Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric and Culture, has just been published. It is edited by the Revd Prof. David Brown, a professor formerly at Durham University and now at the University of St Andrews, and features essays and contributions from more than thirty experts on subjects. The work offers…
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The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass Awards
The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass is pleased to announce that once again they will again be offering the Award for Excellence and Ashton Hill Award training work placement, for the year 2015–16. The deadline for entry is Friday 20 March 2015, with interviews on Wednesday 15 April 2015. They Worshipful Company…
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Strawberry Hill reopens and unveils private rooms
Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole’s remarkable eighteenth-century ‘Gothic’ fantasy castle, reopens on 1 March for the 2015 visiting season. After painstaking restoration, private rooms that have never been open to the public, including Walpole’s bedroom and the room in which he died, will be unveiled to visitors. Walpole bought the four-acre estate at Strawberry Hill (between…
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The Identification Of Two Windows Attributed to Gaudí In Vallgorguina
In 2009, the Institut d’Estudis Catalan and the Department of Culture of the Catalan government signed an agreement to compile an inventory of Catalan stained glass from the Baroque period up to 1925. This takes up and continues the study of Gothic and Renaissance stained glass windows carried out by the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi…
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Bronze Framing for Historic Stained Glass: A New Case Study from the York Glaziers Trust
The prevention of ongoing deterioration of historic stained glass through the provision of effective and ventilated protective glazing has been widely researched and published.[1] In the most commonly employed system, for which the most extensive research data are available, the historic glass is moved inside the building, supported in a frame, with new outer glazing…