Category: Issue 96
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Messingham Church Restoration
A Lincolnshire church with an important collection of medieval stained glass has been awarded a £229,600 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to carry out extensive repairs to the roof and tackle various other dampness-related problems. Although parts of Holy Trinity Church, Messingham, date from the thirteenth century, most of what can be seen today…
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Geoffrey Clarke Panels Installed at the Stained Glass Museum
In 2014, after a fund-raising appeal, the Stained Glass Museum successfully purchased four unique modern stained-glass panels from the studio of Geoffrey Clarke. Vidimus reported on the conservation of these panels, which was documented on the blog ‘Through the eyes of the conservator’. The panels have now been installed in the museum in bespoke frames,…
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University of York Spring Master Class
The University of York MA in Stained-Glass Conservation and Heritage Management Spring Master Class will be held this year on Saturday 27 February 2016 and is entitled ‘The Nineteenth Century: Treasures, Problems, Solutions’. The speakers and lectures are as follows. ……. • Dr Jasmine Allen (Stained Glass Museum): ‘Imitation and Invention: Stained Glass in the…
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Call for Papers: The Rood
The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland c.900 – c.1500 2–3 September 2016 King’s Manor, University of York The rood – understood as the cross itself, and/or the image of Christ crucified – was central to the visual and devotional culture of medieval Christianity. By the late middle ages, a rood was present in monumental form,…
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ICOM-CC Interim Meeting and Student Forum, Wrocław, Poland
The next interim meeting of the ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group will be held in Wrocław, Poland 25–29 May 2016. The conference, focusing on recent advances in glass and ceramics conservation, aims to present relevant case studies in the conservation of glass and ceramics; to disseminate research results in the field of cultural heritage;…
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Appeal for Information
In 1974, a church built in the nineteenth century by the British at Pontresina in the Engadine Valley (Switzerland) was demolished. The Museum Alpin (Natural History Museum) in Pontresina will be holding an exhibition from December 2016 to October 2017 about the church and those who financed its building. The east window, by Mayer of…
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Seeking Salvation: Commemorating the Dead in the Late-Medieval English Parish
By Sally Badham, with photography by C. B. Newham, Shaun Tyas (Donnington, UK), 2015, hardback, 278 pages plus 96 pages of colour photographs, £39.95 Medieval Christians are often said to have been obsessed with death, yet as this excellent book makes clear, their primary concern was not so much with the inevitable act of dying,…
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Symmetry, Colour and Antiquity: Nineteenth-Century Use of Continental Roundels in the East Window of St Peter, Nowton (Suffolk)
The Stained-Glass Trade and the Creation of a New Style Catherine Spirit Cultural and religious changes wrought by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars meant that by the early nineteenth century Continental art objects were more readily available on the open market in Britain than previously.[1] This opportunity was readily exploited by both collectors and…