Brian Clarke, The Victorian Quarter (1989), Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Photo: www.brianclarke.co.uk © Brian Clarke

Brian Clarke, The Victorian Quarter (1989), Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Photo: www.brianclarke.co.uk © Brian Clarke

The Victorian Quarter, Leeds, West Yorkshire

Address

The Victorian Quarter, Leeds LS1 6BE

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Helen Whittaker FMGP (10)

Highlight

Vibrantly coloured, traditionally leaded roof

Artist, maker and date

Reason for highlighting

Brian Clarke famously brought stained/architectural glass into the secular world, to be enjoyed by all.

Other comments

This vibrantly coloured, traditionally-leaded roof, which extends from one end of the street to the other and is over 400 feet long, was the largest secular work of stained glass in the world at the time of its completion in 1990, and remains the largest single work of stained glass in Great Britain and the largest stained glass roof in Europe, measuring 725 square metres (7,804 sq ft) according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Recipient of the Europa Nostra Award in 1990.

More images can be seen on Brian Clarke’s website at Brian Clarke – Projects – Victoria Quarter

Artist/maker notes

Brian Clarke (b.1953) is a world renowned, painter and architectural artist. Born in Oldham, his studies in England were enhanced by a scholarship to study contemporary continental stained glass, which helped open him to the potential for stained glass and its application to both religious and secular buildings.

Subsequently, his practice in architectural and autonomous stained glass, often on a monumental scale, has led to successive innovation and invention in fabrication, in a way that has radically stretched the boundaries of what the medium can do and express.

Sources:
Brian Clarke website
Colours of Architecture – Coloured Glass in Contemporary Buildings by Andrew Moor (Mitchell Beazley, 2006)

Derix Glasstudios, Taunusstein, Germany, was founded in 1866 and has a fine reputation for operating at the forefront of technology to realise the designs of artists and architects.

Source: Derix Glasstudios website

Highlighted dates at this location

1989 (Go to date search)