19th century

Transfiguration - Guilsborough, Northamptonshire

Transfiguration - Guilsborough, Northamptonshire

This stained-glass window depicting the Transfiguration of Christ was made in 1887 by Burlison and Grylls and presented to the church by Lady Cicely Clifton. It follows a well-established iconographic scheme, arranged in two registers beneath a Gothic architectural canopy.

 

 

Two Windows: Suffer the Little Children

Hardman Suffer Children ...

 

 

These two four-light windows form a matched narrative pair illustrating Christ’s teaching, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” Both windows are characteristic products of the John Hardman studio in the later Victorian period.

Wailes, William

Active: 1838–1881
Wailes, William

William Wailes (1808-1881) was born in Newcastle and originally started grocery and tea-dealing business. He studied the manufacture of stained glass in Munich in the 1830s, and by 1838 start his own company in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Ward and Hughes

Active: 1836–1925
Ward and Hughes

The company began in 1836 as Ward and Nixon, the two worked together for twenty years, exporting windows all over the world. In 1855 they were given the contract for re-glazing of East Window of Lincoln Cathedral. By which time James Nixon started to take less active part in the business and died in 1857.

 

 

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