Product Description

This eagerly awaited study provides a complete record of Pugins extraordinary achievements in stained glass design and manufacture. Beautifully illustrated with photography by Alastair Carew-Cox, it shows how Pugin rose to the challenges of creating stained glass in the early Victorian period according to medieval principles; how he worked with leading makers of the day; how he forged a partnership with John Hardman of Birmingham; how this relationship worked; who his clients were; and what he sought to express in the windows. These were made for churches and houses throughout Britain and Ireland and some also found their way to North America, Europe and the Antipodes. A detailed gazetteer gives all the known information about each window. This book is the culmination of many years research by the author and is based on his Ph.D thesis about Pugins stained glass. 420p, 150 col illus

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57091 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 420 pages

Customer Reviews

A significant book about Pugin and stained glass
Extracts from the on-line stained glass magazine, Vidimus, issue 32, September 2009

A significant book...(an) invaluable and meticulously researched account, for which all those who admire and study Pugin will be grateful...

Dr Shepherd, with the help of the fine photographs of Alastair Carew-Cox, has made it possible for us to consider far more widely the extraordinary achievements of Pugin as a pioneering stained glass designer and dedicated and informed reviver of `the true thing', as he called the stained glass of the Middle Ages'.



Catriona Blaker