Stained glass windows

You'll need:


Palette and tools to prepare colours for painting on glass.


Colours and mediums for painting on glass.


A set of glaziers tools.


Modern steel armature.

Good. Now we're ready to begin...

A large Perpendicular style Gothic window of eight lights in Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1400, which contains medieval glass.

The rose window from Sainte-Chapelle 15th c.

West window from Saint-Urbaine, Troyes 1900.

One of England's largest windows, the east window of Lincoln Cathedral, Ward and Nixon (1855), is a formal arrangement of small narrative scenes in roundels.

The Poor Man's Bible window at Canterbury cathedral, England.

The West Window of York Minster.

Altenberg Cathedral, a colourless window in the style known as Grisaille with a small heraldic motif.

Drawsko Pomorskie Church, a good example of heraldic glass

Thomas Becket window from Canterbury showing the pot metal and painted glass, lead H-sectioned cames, modern steel rods and copper wire attachments.

A small panel by G. Owen Bonawit at Yale University, c.1930, demonstrates grisaille glass painting enlivened with silver stain.

Detail from a 19th or 20th-century window in Eyneburg, Belgium, showing detailed polychrome painting of face.

An alabaster window in Orvieto cathedral, Italy.

Daniel from Augsburg Cathedral, early 12th c. One of the oldest examples in situ.

St Anne with the Virgin and a saint, Ablis, Yvelines, France, mid 16th century.