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If the window was symbolic, in romantic portraits, of the divided self, the meeting between interior and exterior realities, then the stained glass window was perhaps the epitome of Victorian romanticism, more serious and sacred than the Georgian. Set at the meeting point of material and immaterial worlds, as a body is animated by the soul, so the visible glass is animated by invisible and unreflected light. — Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (London: Penguin, 2008), p. 326.
General
- A Brief Introduction to Victorian Stained Glass
- The Revival of Stained Glass in the Nineteenth Century
- Charles Heath Wilson on Stained Glass (1865)
- Stephen Adam on Stained Glass (1877)
- "Stained Glass and the Gothic Revival: On the Difference between Painted Glass and Coloured Glass” (Somers Clarke, 1893)
- Review of William Waters' and Alastair Carew-Cox's trilogy of books on Pre-Raphaelite stained glass: Angels & Icons, Damozels & Deities and Saints & Symbols
Designers and Firms
Note:: Many of the stained glass windows included here were identified by referring to Robert Eberhard's stained glass records. Bibliographical links to this important resource were broken when it was adopted by the British Society of Master Glass Painters (BSMGP.org.uk). Please use their new and efficient search engine to find the relevant records now.
- Stephen Adam
- Percy Bacon Brothers
- Joseph Bell of Bristol
- Bell & Beckham
- J. F. Bentley
- Ford Madox Brown
- William Burges
- Sir Edward Burne-Jones
- Burlison & Grylls
- William Butterfield
- Jean-Baptiste Capronnier
- Harry Clarke
- Clayton & Bell
- Sir Ninian Comper
- Daniel Cottier
- Walter Crane
- John Henry Dearle
- W. F. Dixon
- Alfred East
- David Evans
- Alexander Gascoyne
- Alexander Gibbs
- Charles Alexander Gibbs
- Walter Gibbs & Sons/Goddard & Gibbs
- Charles Hardgrave
- John Hardman & Co.
- Heaton, Butler and Bayne
- George Hedgeland
- T. and W. Hodgson of York
- Henry Holiday
- John Jennings
- Charles Eamer Kempe
- Lavers & Barraud
- H. W. Lonsdale
- Henry Stacy Marks
- Mayer and Co.
- A. L. Moore
- William Morris
- Robert J. Newbery
- A.K. Nicholson
- Michael O'Connor and Sons
- G. and Eve Ostrehan
- William Peckitt
- James Powell & Sons, Whitefriars
- Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne
- Augustus Welby Pugin
- William Blake Richmond, example 1 and example 2
- Ellen Mary Rope
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Shrigley & Hunt
- James Silvester Sparrow
- T. R. Spence
- Heywood Sumner
- Martin Travers
- William Wailes
- Ward and Campbell Brothers, Belfast
- Ward and Hughes
- William Warrington
- Philip Webb
- Alfred Webster
- N. H. J. Westlake
- Thomas Willement
Unidentified or Uncategorised Artists
Domestic Stained Glass
- Stained Glass and Gaslight
- Windows (designers unknown)
- Four portraits from the childhood home of John Galsworthy
- Stained Glass at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
Bibliography
Adam, Stephen. Stained Glass: Its History and Modern Development. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1877.
Allen, Jasmine. “Stained Glass and the Culture of the Spectacle, 1780-1862.” Visual Culture in Britain[2012], 13:1-23.
Architectural Stained Glass Ed. B. Clarke. London: John Murray, 1979
Ballantine, James. Treatise on Painted Glass. London: Chapman and Hall; Edinburgh: John Menzies, 1845
Cheshire, Jim. Stained Glass and the Victorian Gothic Revival. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Connick, Charles. Adventures in Light and Color: An Introduction to the Stained Glass Craft. New York: Random House, 1937.
Cowen, Painton. A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain. London: Michael Joseph, 1985.
Day, Lewis F. Windows: A Book about Stained and Painted Glass. 3rd ed. London: B.T. Batsford; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909.
Gossman, Lionel. A Stained Glass Masterpiece in Victorian Glasgow: Stephen Adam’s Celebration of Industrial Labor. Victorian Web.
Harrison, Martin. Victorian Stained Glass. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1980
Holiday, Henry. Stained Glass as an Art. London: Macmillan, 1896.
Lee, Lawrence. The Appreciation of Stained Glass. London: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Oliphant, Fras. [Francis] W. A Plea for Painted Glass, being an Inquiry into its Nature, Character, and Objects and its Claims as an Art. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1855.
Sewter, A. Charles. The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
Waters, William, and Alastair Carew-Cox (photographer). Angels & Icons, Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, 1850-1870. Abbots Morton, Worcester: Seraphim Press, 2012.
_____. Damozels & Deities: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, 1870-1898. Abbots Morton, Worcester: Seraphim Press, 2017.
_____. Saints & Symbols: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass: Ford Madox Brown, John George SowerbyWilliam De Morgan, Walter Crane & Frederic Shields. Abbots Morton, Worcester: Seraphim Press, 2021.
Whall, C.W. Stained Glass Work: A Textbook for Students and Workers in Glass. New York: D. Appleton, 1914 [1st ed. 1905].
Winston, Charles. Inquiry into the Difference of Style observable in Ancient Glass Paintings, especially in England, with Hints on Glass Painting, by an Amateur. 2 vols. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1847.
_____. Memoirs illustrative of the Art of Glass-Painting. Ed. Philip H. Delamotte. London: John Murray, 1865. Internet Archive. Contributed by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library. Web. 23 June 2014.
Links to Related Web Resources
- Antique Glass Studio
- Architects and Artists. Sussex Parish Churches
- Church Stained Glass Records, recorded by Robert Eberhard
- Gwydir Lliw Nghymru: Stained Glass in Wales
- Historic Stained Glass. BSMGP (British Society of Master Glass Painters)
Created 28 October 2004
Last modified 2 March 2023