Stained Glass

Bourges Cathedral Stained Glass

walwyn Sat, 08/02/2014 - 12:36

The Cathedral of St Stephen, Bourges contains a large number of medieval and renaissance stained glass. The glass panels date from 1210 - 1620 and represents Saints, Apostles, Prophets, and Bible stories.

 

The above rose window in the west of the church was built in the last part of 14th century.

France
Cher
Medieval
Gothic
Renaissance
Stained Glass
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Brigitte Simon-Marq

Galswinthe Mon, 06/04/2012 - 11:44

 

 

Bigitte Simon (1926) first worked with her father Jacques Simon, before working in Paris where she met and married Charles Marq. By 1957 Bigette and Charles had taken over the company and collaborated with contemporary artists, including Marc Chagall, to create works for religious buildings.

 

France
Contemporary
Stained Glass
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Bryans, Herbert

walwyn Mon, 10/05/2009 - 22:03

 

 

Herbert William Bryans 1855-1925. A student of, and designer for CE Kempe before starting his own business in 1897.

 

 

 

Victorian
Stained Glass
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Burlison & Grylls

walwyn Sat, 01/16/2010 - 20:42

 

 

Apprentices to Clayton & Bell, with the help of the architect George Bodley, John Burlison (1843–91) and Thomas Grylls (1845–1913) started their own company in 1868.

 

 

 

Northamptonshire
Warwickshire
Victorian
Stained Glass
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Byfield - Holy Cross c1897

walwyn Tue, 03/23/2010 - 21:51

Farebrother memorial window by Kempe

 

 

Memorial window, by CE Kempe, dedicated to Reverend Thomas Farebrother (d1896), Mary Anne Farebrother (d1884), and George Farebrother (d1892).

 

 

 

 

 

Northamptonshire
Victorian
Stained Glass
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C14 stained glass fragments - Old Arley, Warwickshire

walwyn Sun, 03/21/2010 - 21:52

C14 stained glass fragment of saint.

 

 

Early C14 fragments of stained glass re-set into north chancel window. St. Wilfred, Old Arley, Warwickshire

 

 

 

 

Warwickshire
Medieval
Gothic
Stained Glass
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Canons of Loches

walwyn Mon, 09/17/2012 - 20:28

 

This window, at Tours cathedral, is dated to the last part of the 13th century, was donated to Tours Cathedral by the Canons of the Collegiate church at Loches in commemoration for the Treaty of Paris (1259) between Louis IX of France and Henry III of England.

 

 

France
Indre-et-Loire
Medieval
Gothic
Stained Glass
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Chancel Windows - All Saints, Brixworth

walwyn Thu, 10/27/2011 - 23:57

 

The two windows in the north wall of the chancel in the Saxon church of All Saints, Brixworth are by Burlison & Grylls, dated 1913 and 1915, they are from the first quarter of the 20th century.

 

 

Northamptonshire
Victorian
Stained Glass
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Chancel Windows - Tewkesbury Abbey

walwyn Wed, 06/15/2011 - 00:44

The stained glass windows in the chancel of Tewkesbury Abbey are all from between 1338 and 1340. They were most probably a gift to the Abbey by Eleanor Despenser (nee de Clare) the wife of Hugh Despenser the Younger. Eleanor is thought to be the person depicted in the panel here.

Gloucestershire
Medieval
Gothic
Stained Glass
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Chapel of the Sacred Heart - Beauvais Cathedral

walwyn Sat, 11/05/2011 - 22:52

 

 

The Sacred Heart Chapel in Beauvais Cathedral contains this stained glass window by Engrand le Prince. It was commissioned in 1522 by Louis de Roncherolles chamberlain and councillor to Francis I of France.

 

 

France
Oise
Renaissance
Stained Glass
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