Category: Issue 89
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Poole Hall Glass Lost in Fire
A fascinating panel of fragments, which included ten 17th-century quarries depicting soldiers performing military drill, has been largely destroyed in a fire. The panel from Poole Hall in Nantwich, which was 42cm square, consisted of an armorial of Gamul impaling Poole, surrounded by the quarries depicting soldiers, set amidst other fragments, including shield quarterings and…
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Catalan Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Volume Published
Anna Vila Rovira, coordinator of Volume V of the Corpus Vitrearum Catalunya, reports The long-anticipated fifth and final volume of the Catalan Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi series consists of two parts: The Stained Glass of La Seu D’Urgell Cathedral and the Collegiate Church of St Mary of Cervera and the substantial Studies on the Art…
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Conference Review: University of York Masterclass ‘New Voices in Stained Glass Conservation’
Celeste Flower, current Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management MA student The spring masterclass of the University of York’s MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management took place in The King’s Manor, York, on 28 February 2015. The masterclass, now in its seventh year attracted participants with a wide range of interests. In her…
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Harry Clarke News
Church Recovers Harry Clarke Window A stained-glass panel crafted in 1962 at the Harry Clarke studios has been reclaimed by parishioners of Kildimo (Co. Limerick, Ireland), after being missing from the church since the 1970s. The panel, depicting three generations of Jesus’s family (with Jesus, his mother Mary, and grandmother St Anne) was lost to…
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Medieval Glass to be Returned to St Andrew’s Church, Heckington
Medieval stained-glass fragments are to be returned to St Andrew’s Church in Heckington. The majority of the current church building was erected between c.1310 and the 1330s, although the nave aisle, south porch, and lower part of the south transept are earlier. In 1825, it was recorded that remnants of medieval glass from the windows…
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Glass Reflections: Glass in the Year of Light: Call for Papers and Registration 7–9 September 2015, University of Cambridge, Murray Edwards College
The annual conference of the Society of Glass Technology will be held 7–9 September 2015 in Cambridge and will celebrate the fundamental interactions of glass with light. One aspect of the conference will be research in glass science and its application to the production of glass in the modern world. The other aspect will focus…
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Hans Drenckhahn (1878–1953): a Swiss Stained-glass Artist and Restorer
Patricia Sulser Until recently, very little was known about Hans Drenckhahn, a Swiss stained-glass artist and restorer. Despite his important work he was largely forgotten in the years following his death. During my internship at the Vitrocentre in Romont, I had the exciting opportunity to catalogue Hans Drenckhahn’s archive and to do further research into…
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The Raminagrobis Enigma in a 16th-century Window beside the River Loire
By Laurence RIVIALE, lecturer at Clermont-Ferrand University, Corpus vitrearum France The parish church of Saint-Vincent at Cour-sur-Loire, beside the River Loire between Blois and Orléans, dates mainly from the 16th century, and its glazing falls into two campaigns, each datable to shortly after a period of construction, the first in the first half, and the…