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William Wailes (1838-1914)


Stained Glass firm established by William Wailes in Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1838. It quickly became one of the two largest workshops in England with a vast output (the other was Hardmans of Birmingham), and by 1851 William Wailes was employing 76 workmen. From 1838-45 he made windows for A.W.N. Pugin. Windows by Wailes are characterised by bright colours. Later work was more 'factually' Biblical, and even pictorial. After the death of William Wailes in 1881, the firm continued to make stained glass under the leadership of Thomas Rankine Strang, the son-in-law of William Wailes, using the name Wailes and Strang. Waile's daughter and Strang's wife, Margaret Janet Wailes, was probably the chief designer in the later stages of the firm's life.


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Signatures and maker's marks
  Signature    from    The Baptism of Christ and Christ with Children Signature
from The Baptism of Christ and Christ with Children

1900
Church of St Mary and Nicholas, Beaumaris, Anglesey
north wall of the north aisle (window number: nIV)
  Signature    from    The Baptism of Christ and Christ with Children Signature
from The Baptism of Christ and Christ with Children

1900
Church of St Mary and Nicholas, Beaumaris, Anglesey
north wall of the north aisle (window number: nIV)
  Monogram    from    Scenes from the Life of Christ Monogram
from Scenes from the Life of Christ

1855
Church of St Peter and St Meugan, Ruthin, Denbighshire
east wall of the chancel
  Monogram    from    Peter's Confession, Christ Blessing the Children and Christ's Feet Anointed at Bethany Monogram
from Peter's Confession, Christ Blessing the Children and Christ's Feet Anointed at Bethany

1852
Church of St Deiniol, Hawarden, Flintshire
south wall of Whitley Chancel aisle (window number: sIV)
Further reading

Ronald Torbet, The Wonderful Windows of William Wailes (Lancaster: Scotforth Books, 2003).

Paul Thompson, William Butterfield (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971), p. 463.





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