Butterfield, William
Alexander Gibbs and William Butterfield, detail of east window (1865), Church of St Lawrence, Godmersham, Kent.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand
William Butterfield (1814-1900) was one of the great Gothic revivalist architects, and although born into a non-conformist family became associated with the High Church Oxford Movement. While not formally a designer of stained glass window he strongly influenced the work of the many firms that made windows under his direction. Opposite is a typical example of the style of window produced in the 1860s in collaboration with Alexander Gibbs.
Sources:
William Butterfield on Wikipedia
William Butterfield by Paul Thompson (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971)
Butterfield Revisited by P. Howell & A. Saint (eds.), (Victorian Society, 2017)
The Stained Glass Commissioned by William Butterfield by Michael Kerney, Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XX, 1996
