The Stained Glass of Christopher Whall by Peter Cormack – Online

<p>Online Spring Lecture Series 2026<br />Heroines and Heroes of the Arts and Crafts Movement</p> <p>When windows designed by Christopher Whall (1849–1924) were shown at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1888 they were immediately recognised as a break-through. Whall changed for ever the direction of the finest stained-glass in Britain and beyond, thanks to his mastery of not only design but also every stage of its manufacture – cutting, painting and glazing – to create windows in which sumptuous colours were combined with thickly textured ‘slab’ glasses and bold leading patterns.</p> <p>Whall’s achievement will be discussed by Peter Cormack, a noted scholar of post-medieval British and American stained glass, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, whose classic study Arts & Crafts Stained Glass, published by Yale University Press in 2015 was the first book to do Whall and his legacy full justice.</p> <p>Image: “Playful Angels” window (1899), St Andrew, Farnham, Surrey, Stained glass By Christopher Whall</p>