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We've made fair inroads now into our studies of Stained Glass 
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Vic has now had a few dips into this subject at the Society of Antiquaries Library in Piccadilly, and at the British Library (“BL” henceforth) at St Pancras; & both of us have spent a bit of time now at the Stained Glass Museum at Ely Cathedral (see 'Felbrigg ' image in the Gallery). Vic is simply following various references, mainly from the Journal of the British Society of Master Glass Painters (“BSMGP” from now on) and the BL Online Catalogue. He has looked at - ‘The Grisaille & Heraldic Glass in the Church at Norbury, Derbyshire’ by John E. Titterton (“JET”) - see the “ HERALDRY ” section of our website for future projects - JET has done much great work on heraldry in churches, including the series with Peter Summers (publ. Phillimore) on ‘Hatchments in Britain’; BSMGP Journal Vol. 9 no.2 (1944) - ‘The Armorial Glass of the Enamel Period at Stoke Poges’ by EA Greening Lamborn (“EAGL” from this point) This latter article is also contained, with slight variations, in the following book looked into: ‘The Armorial Glass of the Oxford Diocese, 1250-1850' by EAGL; ‘Stained & Painted Glass: Burrell Collection - British & Selected Foreign Armorial Panels’ - a Catalogue by William Wells (publ. Kelvingrove). The outcomes as yet are still very much in the heraldry ball-park, in that Vic has been able to update what he wrote for Thrumpton Hall and about the Disney Window - see projects undertaken in the “ HERALDRY ” section of our website - more information on shields posited for Halsey, Nallinghurst/Ashurst (both Thrumpton Hall) and Neville ( Disney Window, Flintham) arose just from browsing & following-up the indexes of the above texts. However, the actual “glass” aspect is making its own point, especially when one sees the illustrations (especially the plethora of fine, often beautiful, images in the Burrell Collection catalogue); and when one sees how looking at the actual manufacture of the windows themselves can clarify what may have become very indistinct: EAGL often uses reverse-side images of panes, thus showing the leading, to reveal how paint or stain that has become obscure can often be clarified by seeing how the construction-lines delineate heraldic charges. It looks like a profitable line to take! BUT we haven't been drifting in the meantime, as you 'll see from the images in the 'Gallery' albums on " Stained Glass " & " Stained Glass & Heraldry ", via photos made mostly during our holidays (click on the links) An outcome of the above, though, very much linked to visits to the (as yet) single national Stained Glass Museum in Ely Cathedral (& the splendid associated lecture on John Piper by Frances Spalding) is a project for Vic. This is now published at the beginning of this 'Stained Glass' section (having gone to Frances Spalding & checked that there's no treading on toes) as a monograph on the lines of how the relationship of Stained Glass to the building/architecture/setting in which it's found creates an effect on the viewer. Something of the spirit of this idea is hinted at in Vic's article in the Heraldry section " WHY (me and) HERALDRY " on the main heraldry section page, and parallels how that article talks of the way combinations & similarities of some heraldic devices work emotionally or spiritually (ie " affectively") on the psychology of the viewer; the "Prologue" to the article is expanded at the start of our 'Heraldry' section. Subject-matter includes: Liverpool RC Cathedral, the Église-Jeanne-d'Arc in Rouen , the Tempio Sagrada Familia in Barcelona , the chancel windows of the Musée (formerly Église du Monastere) de Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse, the Abbey of Mont-St-Michel in Brittany, Coventry Cathedral, Corbusier's pilgrimage chapel at Ronchamp , St Catherine's Chapel in Ely Cathedral, Troyes Cathedral , Reims Cathedral , the former Mary Ward College Chapel in Keyworth, the Basilica of St-Denis in Paris,-  St-Denis, Paris 2006 - the Église-St-Jacques in Montauban, St Hugh's RC Church in Lincoln, ... and probably will include, as we go on, other references to or records of settings we hope to visit, gain knowledge about, or just chance upon. The article might well thus become a "living" thing, with additions & modifications (such as an actual visit to Ronchamp, hopefully in 2011) being made as we discover new places that enthuse us, like another " Surprise " conclusion .... The debt to Frances Spalding in starting this hare must continually be re-emphasised,
and will hopefully become a spur for us & any readers to look at her book on John Piper, due to come out ilater in 2009.
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