Margaret Chilton, Archangel Michael, ante-room to the Lady Chapel (1933), Cathedral of The Isles, Millport, Great Cumbrae. | Photo: Peter Hildebrand
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Margaret Chilton, Archangel Michael, ante-room to the Lady Chapel (1933), Cathedral of The Isles, Millport, Great Cumbrae.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand
Margaret Chilton, Archangel Gabriel, ante-room to the Lady Chapel (1933), Cathedral of The Isles, Millport, Great Cumbrae. | Photo: Peter Hildebrand
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Margaret Chilton, Archangel Gabriel, ante-room to the Lady Chapel (1933), Cathedral of The Isles, Millport, Great Cumbrae.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Cathedral of the Isles, Millport, Great Cumbrae, North Ayrshire

Address
Cathedral of The Isles and Collegiate Church of the Holy Spirit, College Street, Millport, Great Cumbrae KA28 0HE
Theme
The Cathedrals of the Scottish Episcopal Church (5)
Overview

This is Britain’s smallest cathedral and was built by the famous Victorian architect William Butterfield in 1851. Along with Mount Stuart it is one of the finest achievements of the High Victorian Gothic Revival.

The earliest glass was from two of the leading Victorian studios, William Wailes and Harman & Co.

Highlight
A pair of windows in the ante-room to the Lady Chapel
Artist, maker and date
Margaret Chilton, 1933
Reason for highlighting

The windows depicting the Archangels Michael and Gabriel are excellent colour studies with strong figure drawing. A superior pair of Arts & Crafts windows.

Artist/maker notes

Margaret Isabel Chilton (1875-1963) trained at the Royal College of Art, where she was taught by Christopher Whall and Alfred Drury. In 1906  she opened her own studio in her native Bristol, before moving to Glasgow in 1918, to take up a post as designer at McLundie’s Abbey Studio. Here she met Marjorie Kemp, a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art. They both moved to Edinburgh where they set up in partnership in 1922, designing windows individually, but making them together.

Sources:
Women Stained Glass Artists of the Arts and Craft Movement (London Borough of Waltham Forest, libraries and Arts Department, 1985)
Margaret Chilton on Wikipedia

Highlighted artists at this location
Chilton, Margaret (2)
All artists mentioned at this location
Hardman (John) & Co (18)
Wailes, William (9)
Theme
The Cathedrals of the Scottish Episcopal Church (5)
Highlighted dates at this location
1933 (Go to date search)