Influential stained glass artist and co-founder, with Alfred Drury (1868–1940), of the Glass House in London. The daughter of the vicar of St Mary's Church, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, Mary Lowndes trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She was also a pupil of Henry Holiday and designed windows that were made by James Powell & Sons from 1887–92. Further windows were made by Britten & Gilson before she established the studio and workshop Lowndes & Drury with Alfred Drury in 1897. Their 'Glass House' in Fulham was established in 1906 and became a hub for artists making stained glass according to Arts & Crafts methods.
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| Signature from St Melangell 1905 Church of St Tydecho, Cemmaes, Powys south wall of the nave |
Peter Cormack, Arts and Crafts Stained Glass (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 85–7, 95–6, 252–3 and further references.
Nancy Armstrong, 'Lowndes, Mary (1856–1929)' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Ann O'Donoghue, 'Mary Lowndes - A Brief Overview of Her Life and Work' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xxiv (2000), 38–52.
Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 81.
Sarah Sexton, 'Subversive suffrage stitches' The Quilter, vol. 154 (2018), 26–9.
Alan Brooks and Peter Cormack, 'The Artists of the Glass House' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xli (2017), 34.
Barrie Armstrong and Wendy Armstrong, The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England: A Handbook (Wetherby: Oblong, 2005), p. 243.
Peter Cormack, Women Stained Glass Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement (London: London Borough of Waltham Forest, 1985), pp. 5–6.
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