XLVI (2022) The Journal of Stained Glass, Stained Glass at War

The additional title on the cover, Stained Glass at War, expresses deep concerns about the destruction of precious heritage in Ukraine. The lead article by Oksana Kondratyeva gives a comprehensive account of wartime damage, attempts to secure stained glass at risk, and her clear-eyed anticipation of the ‘herculean task ahead’. We are pleased to publish, for the first time in English, research by Dr Irena Gahk of the Lviv National Academy of Arts on the important 20th-century Ukrainian artist, Modest Sosenko.

The international dimension is further explored in articles on Canadian artist Christopher Wallis’s late 20th-century scheme of stained glass windows for St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Ontario and in Peter Cormack’s research on the origins of slab glass invented by E. S. Prior in England and its transatlantic continuation/production by William Blenko in America.

Contemporary Practice includes a ten-year collaboration with Rachel Phillips resulting in new stained glass for three Welsh castles, along with 2022 commissions by BSMGP Fellows and Associates. Technical Inquiry introduces the BSMGP’s new Conservation Working Group and there is an account of Lambert’s extraordinary century-long production of mouth-blown glass in Germany. Reviews of new books in the field are accompanied by a report on the AGBI Charity and obituaries for our Vice-President Michael Archer OBE, our Librarian Leslie Smith FSA, our Scottish contributor Dr Iain Galbraith and our Honorary Fellow and regular contributor Dr Michael Kerney FSA.