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Alfred L. Wilkinson (1899-1983)


Stained glass designer. The son of Horace Wilkinson, also an artist working in stained glass, he trained at St Martin's School of Art in London before working with his father from 1920 until 1939 in London. Alfred Wilkinson was subsequently based at several addresses in London, Hertfordshire and Essex, and also designed for G. King & Son of Norwich. He served as Honorary Seceretary of the British Society of Master Glass Painters in the 1950s.


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Signatures and maker's marks
  Signature    from    Christ with Mother and Children Signature
from Christ with Mother and Children

1956
Church of St Illtyd, Llantwit Fardre, Rhondda Cynon Taff
west wall of the south chapel
  Signature    from    St David and St Cynwyl Signature
from St David and St Cynwyl

1939
Church of St Cynwyl, Aberporth, Ceredigion
south wall of the sanctuary
  Signature    from    The Risen Christ Appearing to St Mary Magdalene Signature
from The Risen Christ Appearing to St Mary Magdalene

1955
Church of St Arvan, St Arvans, Monmouthshire
east wall of the south aisle
  Signature    from    The Presentation of Christ in the Temple Signature
from The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

1947
Church of St Arvan, St Arvans, Monmouthshire
west wall of the south aisle
Further reading

Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 129.



User contributed comments

My great aunt has recorded "While in London Dorothy and I met Alfred Wilkinson and saw his Design Studio and also the workshop of stained glass. Later, we visited an old church in Billingsgate "St. Magnus The Martyr" in which some of the windows from Alfred's works had newly replaced windows damaged in the war. They were circular and depicted a working man's trade - or union such as carpenter and cooper."

Also I have a scanned copy of a Christmas card sent by A.J.C. Gormley, Chariman and... Show full comment


Submitted by: Sue Clayton (2016-07-25 22:42:00)
Editor's response: thanks for this detail on A.L. Wilkinson. To clarify, the Nativity window at St Stephen's in Norwich was made by Wilkinson, see http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichstephen/norwichstephen.htm

The windows in the church of St Magnus the Martyr, Lower Thames Street in the City of London show the arms of the Worshipful Companies of Fishmongers, Plumbers and Coopers together with those of William Wand when Bishop of London and Geoffrey Fisher when Archbishop of Canterbury as well as the badge of the Fraternity of Our Lady de Salve Regina.
Submitted by: Michael Cooper (2017-09-30 22:31:24)



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