Thursday 27 December 2018

Heritage glass

A handsome bit of brickwork at the corner of Endell Street and Betterton Street, in Covent Garden.

Wikipedia tells me that it was once the headquarters of a stained glass operation, Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, for the second half of the nineteenth century and the first couple of decades following. With Westlake only joining the firm after they had done the bricks. Part of the gothic revival. Was the big top window once a bit of stained glass, to show what they could do?

They probably came a little late to participate in Pugin's glass, described at reference 1. In any event, no mention of any of them in the index.

Reference 1: The stained glass of A.W.N Pugin - Stanley A. Shepherd - 2009.

Reference 2: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=pugin.

Reference 3: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2015/05/ramsgate-5.html. An important Pugin work in Ramsgate.

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