Stained Glass in Somerset

Stained Glass in Somerset

Christopher Woodforde

Oxford University Press, 1946

A catalogue of stained glass at major sites in the English county of Somerset, from early examples to 1830. The book begins with the fourteenth-century glass at Wells Cathedral. Following chapters include the Somerset school of glass-painting in the fifteenth century; heraldic glass; the arms, badges, motto and monogram of John Gunthorpe, dean of Wells 1472–98; a 1530s window at Winscombe Church donated by Peter Carslegh, the local vicar; medieval glass at Orchardleigh and East Brent; the iconography of medieval glass in the county; a summary of stained glass in Somerset between 1545 to 1830; and finally, a chapter on foreign glass, including that at Marston Bigot.

Ex libris: King & Son. Good condition in original dust jacket with some tears

This is a second-hand book. Proceeds from the sale of which will directly support The Stained Glass Museum.