St Nicholas, Ulcerby, Lincs
See also Logs 178 & 179.
(c) John Collins and Erika Szyszczak August 2021
St Nicholas, Ulcerby, Lincs
The Work:- One window of three Lights with Tracery over.
Back of the cartoon/sketch has Glasby’s Kensington address overwritten with Putney.
Also a printed notice of other works by Glasby. Same for Log 187.
Regarding date of the work see the article:- Donald Green, Dennis Hadley and Joan Hadley, “The life and work of William Glasby (1863 – 1941)”, The Journal of Stained Glass, vol xxxii (2008), 91 – 106.
Unable to make contact with this church, possibly due to Covid 19 restrictions.
See also Logs 178 & 179.
Note: we gleaned this information from the Flickr pages of Budby
[84638] St Nicholas, Ulceby : Archdeacon Fletcher Window
St Nicholas, Ulceby, Lincolnshire. Window by William Glasby of London, 1925. Faith - Love - Hope. To the Glory of God and in loving memory of William Henry Fletcher, Ulceby Grange, Archdeacon of Wrexham & Agnes Crawford his wife. Given by their son. But in the Church information these Windows are not mentioned. Instead the Church refers to:
“Ulceby, has two important windows installed in 1876 by James Powell & Sons of Whitefriars, London. The Crucifixion window, designed by John William Brown (1842-1928) is a highly complex mixture of images taken from Renaissance and medieval design. The general layout is based upon a painting by Perugino, now in the National Gallery, Washington, USA. The other window has large figures of Abraham, Moses, Joshua and David designed by Harry Ellis Wooldridge (1845-1917), a stained glass designer and a pupil of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Below them are small panels, known as predellas, designed by J.W. Brown. The windows, typical of the English Aesthetic Movement, were made when this country led the world in stained glass design. The works by the two men are not found commonly and those at Ulceby are exceptionally good examples. The Powell firm was a maker of coloured glass which the two exploited to the full in these highly important windows. Consequently, these exceptional windows deserve to be better known
We need to explore if Glasby painted these Windows and this is why he was asked to paint the Fletcher Windows. But it is strange that the Glasby Windows are not mentioned.
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