Charles Clutterbuck of Stratford, East London began his career in the early days of the Gothic Revival. He worked in a broadly renaissance-influenced style, rather than the 13th and 14th-century manner adopted by some contemporaries, and his windows were much admired by Charles Winston, the pioneer of medieval glass studies.
He was originally a painter of miniatures and exhibited eight paintings at the Royal Academy between 1828 and 1853.
Several commissions for stained glass in North Wales from 1844-60 came through his connection with the Rev. Dr Hugh Chambres Jones at one time vicar of West Ham and Archdeacon of Essex who died at Conway in 1869.
