Joan Elizabeth Anne Fulleylove was born in London on 22 August 1886.
Joan Fulleylove lived in Henfield from the 1930s at the same time as the Glasby family. We have not been able to discover if the Glasby family had any contact with her. But Joan Fulleylove and William Glasby worked in the same circles. She had her own studio in Hampstead before moving to Henfield in the 1930s, living at Crabtree Cottage, half-way along Henfield Common .
Fulleylove studied art at the Slade from 1907-09, trained under Karl Parsons, and had close links with the stained glass studio of Mary Lowndes and Alfred Drury.
She created her own designs as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. She worked with stained glass, painted and designed woodcuts. Perhaps her most important and significant work was on the windows of the Anglican Cathedral in Khartoum, Sudan, with Mabel Esplin (1874-1921. Esplin died at the age of 47 and Fulleylove completed the project.File:Stained Glass in the Republican Palace Museum, Khartoum, Sudan.jpg - Wikipedia
These windows are now part of the Republican Palace Museum in Khartoum which was opened in 1999.
Among her other works were the apse windows of Christ, St. George, and twelve other saints in St. George's Chapel (the "Warriors' Chapel) at the Church of St. Peter in Bushy Heath, Hertfordshire. The latter are based on th designs for Khartoum Cathedral.
Fulleylove designed a window dedicated to her sister for Carbis Bay, St Anta and All Saints, Cornwall. The window depicts a Pilgrim travelling towards Heavenly Jerusalem, and praying at altar and a Crusader praying at the roadside calvary leading to Heavenly Jerusalem. The Window is dedicated to the Revd Alfred Thornley, naturalist and former vicar, died 5th January 1947, and Margaret (Marjorie) Keturah Fulleylove Thornley, sister of Joan Fulleylove, Note that Joan Fulleylove died on 1 January 1947 and it is thought the design had been commissioned much earlier.
St Lawrence Parish Church in York also contains a Window by Fulleylove.
A window in the Church of St Andrew, Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, is given in memory of William Evans, Canon of St Davids, and vicar 1914–1930. It was paid for by n iLady Walford Davies. The faculty for the window is dated January 1932. o
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She also created the memorial window to Frederick Haeffner at St John-at-Hampstead, Church Row, London.
A War Memorial is shown in this Article :
"Nearly 80 years later in London, a Hampstead stained glass designer received a commission for a war memorial window in the parish church for a young man, among so many young men, who lost his life in the Great War. Joan Fulleylove, who also designed windows for the Anglican church in Khartoum, used a rich palette of purples, blues, and fiery oranges. The angels in the scene, which combines the cross and the crowning of a chivalric-looking soldier-knight in heaven, have the latest flapper haircuts and fuschia haloes. The ancient and the modern fuse together. Surrounding the window in little quarries, so small they might easily be overlooked, are the Instruments of the Passion. In overall effect and in detail, this window is a fusion of suffering and hope forged in the legacy of trauma."
She was a strong supporter of the Women's Movement for Suffrage designing banners, posters, and other art for their demonstrations and marches.
A stained glass window she designed is found in the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Barnham, West Sussex, and it is now a memorial to her. It was made in 1949 and shows the Crucifixion, the Flight into Egypt, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth. It was originally designed for another church, but rejected because of its Marian imagery, it was made by Lownes and Drury and presented to St Mary's by friends of Joan Fulleylove in 1949.
Joan Fulleylove died on a trip to Switzerland at Clarens near Montreux, Switzerland, on January 1, 1947.
In the 1939 Register for Henfield she is listed as a retired artist. Some of her
estate passed to Christine Margaret Milne, also a spinster, who also
lived on the southside of the common at the Mill House.
With thanks to Alan Barwick and Stephen Tomlinson for this information.
Reading
Alan Brooks and Peter Cormack, 'The Artists of the Glass House' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xli (2017), 27.
Peter Cormack, Women Stained Glass Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement (London: London Borough of Waltham Forest, 1985), pp. 15–17.
Peter Cormack, Arts and Crafts Stained Glass (Yale, 2015)
Joan Fulleylove. (1886–1947) : Stained Glass in Wales (llgc.org.uk)
Further Research
The Revd Dr Ayla Lepine, Chaplain of King’s College, Cambridge.Power Up: Sister Corita Kent, Joan Fulleylove and the Art of Liberation (kcl.ac.uk), 10 November 2020
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