Stained Glass and the Victorian Gothic Revival
Jim Cheshire
Manchester University Press, 49.99 [pounds sterling]
ISBN 0 7190 6346 9
Few arts have suffered greater reversals in esteem than Victorian stained glass. Although the work of William Morris and his associates never quite fell from favour, by the interwar period the great bulk of Victorian glass was dismissed by ecclesiastics and historians alike as artistically worthless, and its removal actively encouraged ...