Ending 8th Nov, 2022 17:00

Timed Auction - Modern Fine Art and Decorative Arts

 
  Lot 58
 

Jane Gray, ARCA. A Collection of unframed stain glass window designs

Jane Gray ARCA, FMGP (b.1931). A large Collection of unframed stained glass window designs, including proposed Designs for a number of Churches, including Tunstall Church, Carnforth, Lancashire ; St. Nicholas, Worth Matravers, Dorset ; St.John's Church, Read, nr Burnley, Lancs ; St.Mary Magdalen, Wargrave, Berkshire; St.Wilfrid, Ribchester, Lancs ; Warrington Hospital Chapel;Gatton Church, near Redhill, Surrey; All Saint's Church, Hillingdon ; All Saint's Church, Hillingdon ; St.Annes's Church, Gt. Eccleston; the majority in watercolour, some with touches of gouache, 28 x 10 cm and smaller (qty) (sample photographed)

Provenance:

Jane Gray ARCA, FMGP (b.1931). Studied at the Kingston School of Art, Surrey and later worked as an assistant to the Head of Stained Glass, Lawrence Stanley Lee, at the Royal College of Art. Noted early work includes under Lee during his tenure as Chief Designer of the ten stained glass windows for the new Coventry Cathedral. This six-year-long design project culminated in their final installation in 1962 after the cathedral’s consecration.

Other commissions quickly followed, including windows for St. Peter’s Church in Cumbria, St Bernadette’s and St Margaret’s at Uxbridge and many private commissions for clients. Thirty years ago, Jane moved to a cottage in Shropshire and took advantage of the additional space to set up a new workshop in Shrawardine. It was during this time that Gray created the St. Winefride and St. Benedict windows on display in the Shrewsbury Abbey, coupled with numerous other local commissions such the east window at St. Peter’s on Monkmoor Road, a memorial window in the Fitz church and a 50th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings window in St. Mary’s, Chirk.

Sold for £290


 
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