Joan Fulleylove: Stained Glass Artist 1886 - 1947 with Prof. Caroline Barron on Wednesday 8 October 2025

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Caroline Barron to give an an online talk on the life and works of stained glass artist Joan Fulleylove.

Joan Fulleylove was a distinguished, but relatively little-known, stained glass artist, influenced by  Karl Parsons, Alfred Drury and, in particular Christopher Whall in the first decades of the twentieth century. She was a committed suffragette and worked with Mabel Esplin on the windows for the Anglican cathedral in Khartoum (1922 -27). Her known oeuvre is small: some dozen windows, mostly in southern England and Wales. But two of  her windows, one in Hampstead in London and the other in York, both commemorating young men who had died at the Somme in 1916, are remarkable and deserve greater recognition. This talk will focus on these windows.

This online talk will take place on Wednesday 8 October at 7pm GMT. Ticket holders will be sent a Zoom link ahead of the event. For those not able to join us live, a recording of the event will be circulated afterwards

Caroline Barron is an emeritus Professor of Medieval History, at Royal Holloway, University of London. The focus of her academic research has been medieval London but, during the Covid pandemic, she heard a zoom talk about Joan Fulleylove and so became interested in her life and work as a stained glass artist.