Description
Poster featuring the ‘Sunset’ stained glass window created by Clayton & Bell for the Great Hall at Two Temple Place.
Clayton and Bell were among the finest and most successful stained-glass firms of the 19th Century. Clayton and Bell’s commissions included such sites as Rosslyn Chapel, Kings College Chapel in Cambridge and Lincoln Cathedral where they worked with many of those Makers involved with Two Temple Place.
Like many others involved at Two Temple Place they were long-time associates of architect, John Loughborough Pearson and near the end of their careers (Bell died in 1895). They also worked at other properties that were bought by William Waldorf Astor – Cliveden, the Fitzrovia chapel and at Hever where they produced a trademark Astor project, recreating the coats of arms of all the previous owners in stained glass.
Clayton and Bell produced the Great Hall East and West Windows. They represent a Swiss landscape at ‘Sunrise’ and a more Italian landscape at ‘Sunset’. Clayton, the principal designer, treated the whole area of glass as one view, rather than as separate compartments, creating two picture windows – an unconventional approach for their time and one which follows German tradition from earlier in the 19th Century.
Dimensions:
A2
Unframed
