Stained Glass Walks and Talks

Through this summer programme of guided visits, members are given the opportunity to explore some of the hidden treasures of stained glass around the country. Local guides, often practising stained glass artists themselves, lead small groups along a fascinating trail of working studios, town and country churches and often less accessible stained glass sites.

Enquiries/bookings to Andrew Taylor, Walks - tel: 01380 813878

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Summer Programme 2011

• 21 May - East London into Essex led by Nigel Swift
  

  A day with Nigel Swift again, after his enjoyable  and informative event last spring.  The programme planned is as follows: St Andrew Ilford, a Church designed by Herbert Baker, with windows by Karl Parsons and William Aikman. St John the Evangelist at Seven Kings, with a new window by Derek Hunt. St Thomas at Noak Hill – a church for the Neave Family, who installed numerous panels of coats of arms, roundels, etc. Rainham – early work by Joe Nuttgens. Other possibilities are churches at Fryerning, some modern glass and Prittlewell with more Neave continental panels and some AK Nicholson.

• 16 July - Herts and Beds led by Alf Fisher, Doris Rollinson, Caroline Benyon and Helen Robinson (cost £6.00 plus £7.50 for optional lunch)
  

  We start at St Mary’s, Luton, a few minutes’ walk from Luton Station, a beautiful 14th century church with a large Magnificat window by Alan Younger (1979).  Next, Dunstable Priory, famed as the place where the marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon was annulled, a historic building with a full set of windows by John Hayward.  Lunch in St Albans Abbey refectory before a visit to the Abbey where Caroline and Tony Benyon will talk about their St Columba window, recently installed.  A wealth of glass including the great rose, again by Alan Younger.  In the afternoon a visit to St Andrew’s, Cuffley a modern church on a spectacular hilltop site and with a rare collection of fused Whitefriars windows by Alf Fisher.  Finally and if time permits to the nearby church of St Thomas a Becket Northaw, a Victorian gothic building with a complete set of wall paintings and windows by Ward and Hughes, Alf Fisher and Helen Robinson.  Trains back to London can be joined at Harpenden (same line as Luton so return tickets valid).  Tea and buns at Helen Robinson’s studio in Harpenden for those who have time!

Walks and talks retrospective

• Essex with Nigel Swift 
• Wellingborough and Oundle with Robin Fleet
• Kent churches with Keith Hill
• York Minster with Peter Gibson
• Fairford Church, history with Keith Munn and conservation with Keith Barley
• Wesley Chapel with Nigel McMurray
• Churches in Northampton with Paul Sharpling
• Photographing Stained Glass: a day in Norfolk with Rev. Gordon Plumb
• Walks in Oxford with Paul San Casciani
• Digital Imaging day with Derby University
• Carlisle Cathedral with Arthur Penn
• Henry Haig, walking around Shaftsbury viewing his windows
• Sherborne Abbey, John Hayward talk on making the West Window
• City of London, Churches and Livery Halls: walk with Alf Fisher
• Kent: John Trinnick, Pugin (St Augustine�s Abbey) and Rosenkrantz windows, with Robin Fleet
• Piggots Hill Studio, Buckinghamshire with Joe Nuttgens
• City of London Churches with Caroline Swash
• Surrey with Peter Batts
• Berkshire with Peter Batts
• Oxford with Paul San Casciani