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Stained Glass in Wales
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Work – Stained Glass in Wales The Stained Glass in Wales Project ran from 2009 until 2011 at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. The medium is commonly found across the country in churches large and small, present in almost every community in Wales. As in England, stained glass has received relatively little attention from art and religious historians, and the new online Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue is among the largest searchable catalogues of stained glass published anywhere in the world.
The project drew initially on the biblical stained glass of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, recorded while I was working on the Imaging the Bible in Wales Project between 2005 and 2008. I undertook much new fieldwork from places all around Wales, and my archive now contains well over 10,000 photographs of stained glass in Wales, mainly from places of worship. There are over 6,000 photographs on the Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, including context and exterior views of churches.
The catalogue is available via the servers of the National Library of Wales. I am very grateful to Nigel Callaghan of Technoleg Taliesin for his creative technical help in realising the project, as well as those who helped to fund the project: the University of Wales Welsh Industries Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Trustees of the Friends of Friendless Churches. After the end of the funding for this project, I am continuing to research stained glass in Wales and monitor the online catalogue on a voluntary basis, and adding further photography as time permits. I am also working on a history of stained glass in Wales, that I hope to publish in 2013, subject to securing the necessary funding. I am also working on a smaller guide to the glass at the Church of St Michael, Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, Llandre. For an overview of the project please see my Feature article in Vidimus Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue
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