Barrowclough & Sanders

Barrowclough & Sanders, south nave World War One mmeorial window, Holy Trinity, Southport, Lancashire.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Barrowclough & Sanders was a stained glass studio based in Lancaster, Lancashire.

Allen Barrowclough (1881-1964), who was born in Althorne, Essex, worked at Shrigley & Hunt from 1897, before establishing his own studio with Joseph Newbould Sanders (1885-1933) c.1925, with Robert Francis Ashmead (1910-95) as a designer.

It is not known how Barrowclough met Sanders, who was born in Birmingham and trained in stained glass work at the Birmingham School of Art under Henry Payne, with whom he worked at Madresfield Court. By 1906 he had joined A. J. Davies at the Bromsgrove Guild and worked there until 1914 when he joined up with the Artists Rifles.

The studio closed on Sanders’ death and by 1939 Barrowclough was working as a Stained Glass and Leader Light Traveller and Designer, based in Lancaster.

Sources:
The Arts and Crafts movement in the North West of England: a handbook by Barrie and Wendy Armstrong, Wetherby, England (Oblong, 2005)
Stained Glass Marks & Monograms, complied by Joyce Little, and edited by Angela Goedicke & Margaret Washbourn (NADFAS, 2002)