Lawrence Stanley Lee 1909 - 2011

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About Lawrence Stanley Lee 1909 - 2011

This group is for photographs of stained glass windows (also sketches, murals, etc) created by Lawrence Stanley Lee. His son, Stephen and I are compiling a collection of his works in celebration of his 100th birthday (September 2009) on which occasion he enjoyed a party attended by family, friends and former assistants.

In January 2010 I was lucky enough to meet Lawrence Lee and take him to see one of his windows in Pett, Sussex.

Lawrence Lee died peacefully on 25 April 2011 after a short illness, aged 101 years and 7 months.

Biography
The Martin Travers Legacy
Chronology
Notes and Queries
Assistants
Other works
The Journey - links to blog entries
Honourable mentions - the LSL Project in other articles, etc
Links to LSL's work

It is hoped that we will be able to visit and photograph most of the windows in the UK at least. Future plans for the collection may eventually include a book but we are presently at a very early stage. Please feel free to add your images of his glass to the group and be assured that we will not use any of your photographs without your permission.

If you set out to photograph any of his windows, we would be most grateful if you could also try to photograph his signature.

If you have any stories to tell, please share them in the discussions.

I am blogging most of our travels which you can follow here.

You may also be interested in some of these Flickr groups.

Other contemporary artists' windows, photographed by our members, can be found here.

Stained glass is energized through its relationship with light and changes according to the time of day, the seasons of the year and the weather. All affect - sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically - the image that is perceived, for stained glass is the most ancient and cunning form of kinetic art. Light, the intangible phenomenon by which the world is made visible, has, since time immemorial been symbolically equated with goodness, revelation and beauty, and has, therefore, been a focal point of the philosophies and religions of mankind. Lawrence Lee - Stained Glass (1976)



WINDOWS

Live links in the headings will take you to a discussion thread for that county (or country) at the top of which will be links to photos from individual churches (or other buildings). There will be, for some, also links to discussions about windows within that county.

Alongside some of the church (or other building) names will be links in square brackets. These will take you to more information on the windows - often LSL's own words, sometimes stories surrounding the making of the windows, and occasionally our interpretations of the themes and imagers. Members are very welcome to add to these threads.

This list is fairly complete, although there will be some omissions as we continue to discover new windows from time to time. If you spot any errors, please do let us know.

✓ Visited and photographed
✧ Contributed photo(s) in the pool

UK

Bedfordshire

✧ St Andrew's, Biggleswade

Kingsclere - St Mary

Stoke Poges

✧ St Andrew's, Sutton-in-the-Isle

Alderley Edge - St Phillip

West Hartelpool - St Oswald

Carlisle - Wetherall Roman Catholic Chapel

Matlock - St Giles

Bournemouth - St Mark's
✧ Milton Abbas - St James

✧ Chingford - St Edmund
Downham
✧ Great Warley - St Mary's
Highams Park - Parish Church
Little Baddow
✧ Little Waltham - St Martin
✧ Maldon - All Saints
✧ Roxwell - St Michael & All Angels
Southchurch
Woodford Green

Cheltenham - Grammar School
Cirencester
✧ Prestbury - St Mary

Longmoor - Garrison Church (windows relocated)
✓ Milton, Portsmouth - St James [Gethsemane Window]

Hereford - Newtown Farm Church
✧ Leominster Priory

✓ Binstead - Church of the Holy Cross
✓ Ryde - All Saints
✓ Ryde - domestic
✓ Wroxall - St John's

✧ Bickley - St George's
✓ Brasted - St Martin
Canterbury - St Dunstan's
✓ Cowden - St Mary Magdalene
Dover - St Bartholomew
✧ High Halden - St Mary
Orpington
Penshurst - North Lodge
Penshurst - The Yews (private)
Penshurst - Westfalls Vineyard
✓ Penshurst Parish Church - St John the Baptist
✓ Penshurst Primary School - Du Buisson Memorial
✧ Reculver - St John
Seasalter
✓ Sundridge - St Mary
✧ Swanley - St Mary's
Temple Ewell
✓ Tunbridge Wells - King Charles the Martyr

Blackpool - St Paul's
Lytham St Anne's - St Paul
Whittington - St Michael the Archangel

✧ Colsterworth - Parish Church, St John the Baptist
Grimsby - All Saints

Battersea - St Walter St John's School
Bedford Park, W4 - St Mary and All Angels
Bethnal Green - St Matthew
Catford - St Andrew
✧ Clapham - Holy Trinity
✧ Dulwich - St Faith's
✓ EC2N - The Carpenters' Company, Carpenters' Hall
✓ ✧ EC2V - St Lawrence Jewry
✧ EC3R - Church of St Magnus the Martyr
✧ EC4M - St Mary, Aldermary
✧ EC4N - St Mary, Abchurch
EC4R - Worshipful Company of Innholders, Innholders' Hall
✓ EC4V - Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, Painters' Hall
EC4V - Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, Apothecaries' Hall
Elephant - St Matthew
✧ Golders Green - Crematorium
Greenwich - Elizabeth I Almshouses Chapel
✧ Harlesden - Methodist Church
✧ Kensington - St Augustine (Queen's Gate)
✧ Lambeth - Museum of Garden History
Lambeth - St Andrews
✓ NW1 - St Marylebone Parish Church
✓ Piccadilly - Royal Society of Chemistry
Putney - Crematorium
✓ Southwark - Southwark Cathedral
Streatham - Christ Church
Streatham - St Leonards
✧ Streatham - St Peter
✓ SE1 - Worshipful Company of Glaziers & Painters of Glass, Glaziers' Hall
SW7 - The Science Museum (storage)
✧ Tooting - All Saints
Wembley - Hetleys (destroyed?)

Wythenshawe - Unitarian Church

✧ Enfield - Jesus Church, Forty Hill - Mural
Hayes - St Edmunds
New Southgate - St Paul
✧ Ruislip - St Martin
✧ Yeading - St Edmund the King

Attleborough
✓ ✧ Birmingham - St Martin in the Bullring
✧ Birmingham - St Mary's, Moseley
✓ Birmingham - Saltley Parish Church
✓ ✧ Coventry Cathedral [The Coventry Cathedral Story]
✓ Solihull - St Alphege

Jesmond - Parish Church

Norwich - St Matthew

✧ Mears Ashby - All Saints

Headingly - Sts Mary & John
Oxford - Magdalen College School

✧ Glasgow University Memorial Chapel

Gobowen

✧ Chew Magna - Chew Valley School

Elvedon

✓ Abinger - St James'
Ashford - St David's School Chapel
✓ Belmont, Sutton - St John's
✓ Bisley - St John the Baptist
✓ Bramley - Holy Trinity
Byfleet - St Mary
✓ Chobham - St Lawrence
✧ Croydon - Unitarian Church
✓ Cuddington - St Mary the Virgin
✓ Dunsfold - St Mary & All Saints
✓ Ewell - St Mary's
✓ Guildford Cathedral
✗ Milford - St John (access to one window not possible, will revisit)
✧ Mitcham - St Mark
✓ Ockham - All Saints
✗ Oxshott - St Andrew's (very difficult to see window - need better access)
✧ Purley - St Swithun
✓ Reigate - St Luke's
✧ Sandhurst, Camberley - Royal Military Academy
Sutton - St Barnabas
Thorpe - St Mary
✧ Whiteley Village

Brighton - St Saviour's
Chuck Hatch, Hartfield - Private dwelling
✓ Fletching - St Andrew & St Mary the Virgin
✓ Heathfield - All Saints
Heene, Worthing - St Botolph
Horsham - Hamilton Memorial
✓ Pett - St Mary & St Peter

Aberporth
Aberystwyth - St Michael & All Angels
Betws (Ammanford) - St David's Church
Gowerton - St John

Beconfield - St Martin, Army School of Transport (see Longmoor, Hampshire)
Leeds - Grammar School
Leeds - Sacred Heart
Leeds - St Michael's college
Long Riston - St Margaret

Adelaide - Scot's Church

✧ Montreal - Sts Andrew & Paul
Montreal - General Hospital

Guernsey - St Appoline
Guernsey - St Saviour's
Jersey - Holy Trinity
Jersey - St Brelade

Dhekalia - Garrison Church

Auckland - St Paul's
Auckland - Masonic Chapel

Rondebosch - Boys' High School

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