Premises of Lavers and Barraud in London

Lavers, Barraud and Westlake were an English firm that produced

stained glass Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...

windows from 1855 until 1921. They were part of the 19th-century

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

movement that had a significant influence on English civic, ecclesiastical and domestic architecture, and on the manufacture and use of stained glass as decoration and as glazing.Stained Glass in Wales
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History

In the mid-19th century, Lavers, Barraud and Westlake were among many young designers who responded to the growing market for stained glass windows. The partnership initially comprised Nathaniel Wood Lavers (1828–1911) and Francis Philip Barraud (1824–1900).Younger brother of

William Barraud William Barraud (1810 – 1 October 1850) was an English animal painter and illustrator, the brother of Henry Barraud, with whom he collaborated on many works. William was born in Lambeth in London, one of 17 children of William Francis Ba ...

and

Charles Decimus Barraud Charles Decimus Barraud (9 May 1822 – 26 December 1897) was a New Zealand pharmacist and artist. The tenth recorded child of William Francis Barraud and his wife, Sophia Hull, Charles was born in Camberwell, Surrey, England on 9 May 1822 ...

, descendants of a French Huguenot family of watch and clockmakers Both were originally employed at the workshops of

James Powell and Sons The firm of James Powell and Sons, also known as Whitefriars Glass, were London-based English glassmakers, leadlighters and stained glass window manufacturers. As ''Whitefriars Glass'', the company existed from the 17th century, but became well ...

. Lavers started his own studio in 1855 and was joined by Barraud in 1858, from which date they operated as Lavers & Barraud.

Nathaniel Westlake Nathaniel Hubert John Westlake FSA (1833–1921) was a 19th-century British artist specialising in stained glass. Career Nathaniel Westlake was born in Romsey in 1833. He began to design for the firm of Lavers & Barraud, Ecclesiastical Design ...

(1833–1921), a freelance artist, was engaged by the pair as a designer, having worked with the architect

William Burges William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoc ...

, and with Alfred Bell (1832–1895), of notable glaziers and designers

Clayton and Bell Clayton and Bell was one of the most prolific and proficient British workshops of stained-glass windows during the latter half of the 19th century and early 20th century. The partners were John Richard Clayton (1827–1913) and Alfred Bell (1832� ...

. The company employed the services of a number of freelance artists apart from Westlake, who joined them as a partner in 1868. These included

Henry Stacy Marks Henry Stacy Marks (13 September 1829 – 9 January 1898) was a British artist who took a particular interest in Shakespearean and medieval themes in his early career and later in decorative art depicting birds and ornithologists as well as lan ...

(1829–1898), who designed windows with elongated figures in the medieval style for the company in its earliest years, and J.M. Allen, who worked with Lavers and Barraud before the joining of Westlake, also designing windows for the firms of

Heaton, Butler and Bayne Heaton, Butler and Bayne were an English firm who produced stained-glass windows from 1862 to 1953. History Clement Heaton (1824–82) Fleming, John & Hugh Honour. (1977) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts. '' London: Allen Lane, p. 371. ...

, and

Shrigley and Hunt Shrigley and Hunt was an English firm which produced stained-glass windows and art tiles. History The business began in the 1750s when Shrigley's was a painting, carving and gilding firm in Lancaster, Lancashire. In 1868, control of Shrigley' ...

until the 1880s. Alfred Bell and

Henry Holiday Henry Holiday (17 June 183915 April 1927) was a British historical genre and landscape painter, stained-glass designer, illustrator, and sculptor. He is part of the Pre-Raphaelite school of art. Life Early years and training Holiday was born ...

also designed glass for Lavers, Barraud and Westlake. Between 1891 and 1894, Nathaniel Westlake published four volumes entitled ''"A History of Design in Painted Glass".'' After the deaths of Barraud in 1900, and of Lavers in 1911, Westlake became the sole partner, continuing in business until his death in 1921.

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* St. Peter's Church,

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