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Tea Party to raise money to buy a new kiln

Sunday 28th June at the Cathedral Centre, Ely from 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm

The kiln used in our glass-painting workshops has been declared 'dead and dangerous'. For over ten years the Museum has introduced people to the art of glass-painting through painting workshops. The workshops are not only enjoyable and rewarding for the participants, they are a vital part of our education work.

In order to raise funds to buy a new kiln we are encouraging Friends of the Museum to run a small coffee morning or tea party (perhaps at home) during the last two weeks of June.

Three or four people are all you need and you can do it in the comfort of your own home in which case you could just ask for a donation. If every Friend sent £10 we could buy a new kiln!

We will be holding an inaugural strawberry Tea party here in Ely on Sunday 28th June at the Cathedral Centre, Ely from 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm. We have already been promised cakes and will be holding a plant and bookstall.

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Please send any proceeds to The Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4DL marked Coffee Morning/Tea Party

Lectures

Annual Lecture
‘A Continued Protest against Medievalism’:
the Stained Glass of Henry Holiday 1839-1927
by Peter Cormack M.B.E., F.S.A.

Friday 17th July, 5:30pm
St Ethelburga's Centre, Bishopsgate, London, EC2 - Location on Google Maps

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Throughout his long career, Henry Holiday regarded himself as a 'modernist' who rejected the self-imposed limitations of the Gothic Revival. This lecture will examine Holiday's relationship with some of the key movements in later 19th-century art, notably Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and the Arts & Crafts, and his influential role in the development of a progressive school of stained glass design in Britain.

Peter Cormack M.B.E., F.S.A. is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century art and design. He was formerly curator of the William Morris Gallery, London, where he organised numerous exhibitions on aspects of William Morris and his circle and the Arts & Crafts Movement. His 1989 exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of  Henry Holiday's birth was the first modern retrospective of the artist's work.

Tickets £5.00, are available from the Museum (see contacting us) or on the door £6.00.

Autumn Lectures 2009

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Tuesday 6th October, 7:30pm, Ely Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Ely
Becket's Glassy Bones - The Glazing of Canterbury Cathedral, by Dr Frank Woodman FSA

The early stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral pre 1220 survives remarkably well though not always in its original position or condition. The extraordinary speed of the building work put great strains on the medieval glass workshop. This lecture will explore the iconography and original layout of the Canterbury glazing, plus the adaptations as they went along. Francis Woodman has a lectureship at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education and specializes in Architecture from the Romans to the Reformation.

Tuesday 20th October, 7:30pm, Ely Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Ely
Studio Reminiscences: James Powell & Sons, by Alf Fisher

Whitefriars glassworks or 'Powell's' as it was then known was arguably the last of the true Victorian stained glass studios. Little had changed in practice when Alf Fisher left home in Liverpool in 1951 at the age of seventeen to train there as a craftsman. Fifteen years later he became Chief Designer and Manager of the Studio. This talk is about studio life, with its personalities, its 'ups and downs' and its humour.

Tuesday 3rd November, 7:30pm Ely Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Ely
William Dowsing and the destruction of religious images in the English Civil War, by Professor John Morrill

In 1643 William Dowsing was appointed to remove all 'the monuments of idolatry and superstition' from the parish churches of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. John Morrill is Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge and Vice President of the British Academy.

Tuesday 17th November, 7:30pm, Ely Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Ely
Pugin and the Decorative Arts at the Palace of Westminster, by Lady Alexandra Wedgwood

Sandra Wedgwood was educated at the Courtauld Institute and her first job involved working with Pevsner on 'The Buildings of England' series. For many years she was the Architectural Archivist in the House of Lords Record Office. In this lecture she will discuss Pugin's designs for metalwork, tiles, furniture, wood carving, wallpapers and stained glass in the Houses of Parliament.

Tickets £5.00, are available from the Museum (see contacting us) or on the door £6.00.

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