Renaissance-era stained glass window depicting the Pieta, created by the master glass painter Bertin Duval in 1530 and installed in the choir of Notre-Dame Church in Alençon
Stained Glass
22
Sep
2009
Pontlevoy - St. Pierre
Submitted by walwyn
23
Mar
2010
Powell & Sons, Whitefriars
Submitted by walwyn
In 1834 the London Wine merchant James Powell (1774-1840) bought the small Whitefriars glassworks just off Fleet Street as a business for his sons. Originally unfamiliar with glass production the company experiemented with different techniques and were soon supply patent glass to other leading stained glass companies and designer as well as making stained glass windows of their own.
20
Jan
2010
The following pages catalogue examples of stained from different historic periods prior to the Nineteenth century. This will include Medieval (pre 1500), Tudor (1485-1603), and then from James I through to the beginning of the Nineteenth century.
This "Presentation in the Temple" scene by Clayton and Bell shows Mary and Joseph bringing two doves as offerings to the Temple at the time of Mary's Ritual Purification.
These stained glass windows in the clerestory of Quire at Gloucester Cathedral were made by Clayton and Bell in the early second half of the 19th century. The original medieval clerestory glass had been transferred to fill in damaged panels in other windows in the cathedral notably the great east window and the window in the Lady Chapel.
Hardman window of 1888 shows Jesus raising the widow's son.
East window by Kempe c1907.
This reconstructed window is of six panels in two lights, is in the style of the C14 stained glass at Chartre. The original glass was destroyed when the center of Neufchatel was bombed in June 1940.
This Hardman window from the mid 1860s depicts the resurrection. Christ rises from the tomb with the soldiers on guard recoiling on either side.
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