Nineteenth Century Norfolk Stained Glass

Nineteenth Century Norfolk Stained Glass

Birkin Haward

Geo Books and Centre of East Anglian Studies, 1984

Hardback, 25x19.5x3cm

Good/fair condition

ISBN: 0 86094 152 3

This survey records all stained glass existing in Norfolk churches at the time of writing (1984). It is the first comprehensive record of its kind for any English county. An alphabetical Gazetteer of Places describes the glass remaining in each of the 722 churches. This reveals that the nineteenth century was by far the most prolific period in history producing nearly 1400 windows in Norfolk alone, most of which remain today. Many of these emanated from from well known Victorian artists and designers - such as William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Maddox Brown, Henry Stacey Marks, Albert Moore, Henry Holiday, Harry Woodbridge, Robert Bayne and others - and over 250 windows were made locally by previously unrecognised Norfolk workshops, involving glass painters like Sam Yarington, Robert Allen, John Dixon, the Grant brothers, William Culyer and the King family of Norwich.

This great nineteenth century output of stained glass windows is analysed in a Directory of Firms and Designers, which records the locations of each firms works in the County and gives some account of their respective developments in the context of their time. A final Section presents the first assessment to be written of the lives and works of the Norfolk glass painters of this period - artists and craftsmen who until now have been practically unknown.

Over 400 illustrations are included - the majority on colour microfiche, a method of presentation which at last does justice to the medium and confirms the importance of this previously neglected subject.

This is a second-hand out-of-print book. All proceeds go directly to supporting the only museum of stained glass in the UK.

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