Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire & Shropshire, The

£25.00

Robert Walker

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This beautifully produced and modestly-priced gazetteer and guide … will be a welcome addition to any library. … The diocese is rich in stained glass of exceptional quality and interest, preserved in over 100 locations and Walker does this material full justice. … This is a book to be enjoyed at home and to be well-used while on the road. It is a refreshing, well-written and richly illustrated account of two counties that deserve to be celebrated and visited by everyone with a love of stained glass. – Ecclesiology Today

A meticulously researched regional survey … an exemplary and innovative approach to the wider study of ancient glass … Walker writes with a lively, appreciative and sometimes lyrical eloquence that is all too rarely found in scholarly studies of medieval glass – Peter Cormack, The Antiquaries Journal

Lavishly illustrated with superb colour photographs and clear diagrams it is essential reading for anyone interested in church art and architecture. The perfect addition to a library of local history books – The Tower Magazine

This beautifully produced and modestly priced gazetteer and guide … will be a welcome addition to any library … to be enjoyed at home and to be well-used while on the road. It is a refreshing and well-written account of two counties that deserve to be celebrated and visited by everyone with a love of stained glass, and Logaston Press … is to be congratulated for ensuring that it is affordably within the reach of so many grateful readers – Vidimus

This richly-illustrated book represents the first comprehensive study of the medieval stained glass of Herefordshire and Shropshire, and includes a gazetteer of all known surviving stained glass in the two counties for the period c.1300–1700.

The region lays claim to some of the finest medieval glass in the country, including the rare late thirteenth-century medallions at Madley, the beautiful fourteenth-century chancel windows at Eaton Bishop and the magnificent assemblages of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century glass at Ludlow and Shrewsbury. The important later medieval workshops in Coventry, York and Oxford also had influence and presence here, and are for the first time fully plotted in this survey.

The first detailed study of stained glass in the central Marches, this title is lavishly illustrated with superb colour photographs and is essential reading for anyone interested in church art and architecture.

Robert Walker is a retired building conservation officer with a life-long interest in historic churches. Previous publications include The Dovecotes and Pigeon Houses of Herefordshire.

Paperback with flaps | 304 pages | 260 x 204 mm | February 2023
c. 340 colour photographs and illustrations

ISBN 9781910839546

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