Medieval Stained Glass of West Yorkshire

The first complete survey of glass in the county predating the Gothic Revival, presenting important glazing schemes, drawing on dispersed information to give accounts of lost and excavated glass, and offering the first overview of stained glass in the region.

About the author

Brian Sprakes was educated in the history of art department at Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University), where he specialized in European architecture and stained glass. He subsequently worked as a lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association, Rother Valley College, and more recently for the local history department at Sheffield University. The author of several articles on stained glass, he has been a stained-glass adviser to the bishop and diocese of Sheffield and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2006.

Summary

The first complete survey of glass in the county predating the Gothic Revival, presenting important glazing schemes, drawing on dispersed information to give accounts of lost and excavated glass, and offering the first overview of stained glass in the region.

Additional text

This volume, as well as other volumes in the Corpus Vitrearum Summary Catalogue series, deserves to be placed in every local library and in every tourist office in West Yorkshire. The work is a quintessential example of dedicated scholarship by individuals animated by the love of a past whose values, they are convinced, can animate the present.

Product details

• Authors: Sprakes Brian, Brian Sprakes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 26.01.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Guides > Hobby, home > Creative design
• EAN: 9780197267097
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726709-7
• Pages: 488
• Series: Corpus Vitrearum > S10; Corpus Vitraearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain; Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Summary Catalogue > 10
• Subjects: History, HISTORY / General, ART / History / General, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Archaeology, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, Local History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, History and Archaeology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies