Clayton & Bell, Abraham & Isaac window (c.1860), Church of Saint Michael & All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, East Yorkshire.

Photo: William Thackray

Clayton & Bell, Moses anoints Aaron window (c.1860), Church of Saint Michael & All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, East Yorkshire.

Photo: William Thackray

Church of Saint Michael & All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, East Yorkshire

Address

Church of Saint Michael & All Angels, Pump Lane, Garton on the Wolds, East Yorkshire YO25 3ES

Recommended by

Phil Thomas (10)

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Complete scheme

Artist, maker and date

Clayton & Bell, late 1850s onwards

Reason for highlighting

Complete set of stained glass designed in tandem with Clayton & Bell’s sumptuous scheme of mural paintings and painted roofs. Breathtaking glass of glittering splendour, some of the best in Britain since the middle ages. The storytelling is wonderful and always spelled out in the leading, the idiom deceptively simple, the colouring beautiful, the painting finely balanced. See other local Clayton & Bell glass of a similar date and quality at Thixendale, Wansford, Bishop Wilton, East Heslerton and Appleton le Moors. As good as their work at Denstone in Staffordshire.

Artist/maker notes

Clayton & Bell is one of the best known and most prolific studios of the Victorian Age. The original partners, John Richard Clayton (1827-1913) and Alfred Bell (1832-95), were encouraged into business by Sir George Gilbert Scott, who would go on to use the firm for numerous commissions, as did G E Street and J L Pearson.

While the output of the firm would become prodigious, it also affected the development of stained glass through the significant number of artists, who spent time with the firm, including Charles Eamer Kempe, John Burlison and Thomas Grylls, and Robert Bayne.

Angels & Icons: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850-1870 by William Waters (Seraphim Press Ltd 2012)

Highlighted dates at this location

c.1860 (Go to date search)

All artists mentioned at this location

Clayton & Bell