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Tickets are now on sale for this year’s ICON Stained Glass Conference, which will be held at the Hospitium, Museum Gardens, York, on 10th and 11th October. The conference programme is multifaceted and includes various talks, a panel talk on the future of stained glass and visits to York Minster and the church of All…

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Over recent months, the Institute of Conservation (Icon) has continued to work closely with stained glass conservators, heritage institutions, businesses, MPs, and government ministers regarding the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) proposed changes to lead legislation and the potential impact these could have on the stained glass community in the UK. As mentioned in previous…

Save the Date, Call for papers and student bursaries The Institute of Conservation (ICON) Stained Glass Committee has recently announced the date for their annual conference, to be held in York on 10th and 11th October 2026. This year the conference will look to the future, considering how the field of stained glass conservation may…

Meredith Parsons Lillich, eminent scholar of medieval stained glass, was professor emerita at Syracuse University, where she taught for forty years (Figs. 1-2). A founder of the United States Corpus Vitrearum, she was greatly beloved and highly esteemed by her American Corpus colleagues. She authored the CV volume Stained Glass Before 1700 in Upstate New…

In 2019 the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, assisted by the Terry Trust, York Glaziers Trust and the Friends of the Library and Archive, acquired the personal notebook of the fifteen-year old William Peckitt (1731-95) who was to become York’s most celebrated glass-painter of the eighteenth century (https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2019/research/university-acquires-stained-glass-painter-notebook/). The hand-sewn notebook,…

We are delighted to share with Vidimus readers the news that the Stained Glass Museum in Ely, Cambridgeshire, has been awarded Designated Status by Arts Council England, placing it among a select group of institutions whose collections are recognised as being of national significance. This prestigious accolade celebrates the exceptional range, quality, and importance of the museum’s collection, which spans…

The Binsfeld Werkstätten für Glasgestaltung, Trier (1882-2025) Anja Ostrowitzki, Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz In June 2025, the stained glass company Binsfeld in Trier, founded in 1882, closed its doors. It was one of the most important stained glass workshops in Germany. While specialising in church windows, it also supplied secular buildings, such as residential buildings, hotels, banks…

The grant from The Julia Rausing Trust will allow the museum to carry out essential conservation work. The Stained Glass Museum, Ely is delighted to share that the museum has been awarded a major new grant by The Julia Rausing Trust which will improve collections care through conservation work and environmental assessment, whilst providing opportunities…

The online ‘Stained Glass in Wales’ catalogue was launched in 2011 to provide information and images relating to stained glass from all periods from across Wales. It was created as an offshoot of the database created for the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded ‘Imaging the Bible in Wales’ project (2008), which included biblical imagery in a…