Stained Glass

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

431

Date Released

1 Apr 1963

Date recorded

22 Feb 1963

Length of issue (in feet)

790

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Stained Glass
2. 2Ice Sculpture
3. 3Spectacles Old and New

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

NoS Summary - A modern way of making stained glass makes it suitable for new concrete buildings.

Researcher Comments

Commentary: The artistry of fashioning stained glass windows is centuries old. As far back as the sixth century, craftsmen ornamented and glorified churches with colourful glass fragments patterned together. But this is the age of concrete. Contemporary concrete cathedrals and office-blocks, churches and sky-scrapers, loom over old England. And stained glass has changed dramatically to meet the new trend. At a Hayes, Middlesex, glassworks, slabs of glass - glass bricks an inch thick - are concreted together. A new technique for a new age ...

Keywords

Arts and crafts; Industry and manufacture

Locations

Hayes; England; Middlesex

Written sources

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Credits:

Commentator

Tim Brinton

Length of story (in feet)

274

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