James Ballantine and Son (about 1828 - about 1925)

Edinburgh-based manufacturers founded by James Ballantine (1808-1877) and George Allan as Ballantine & Allan. Began making stained glass in the 1830s. In 1843 they won a competition to design windows for the new Houses of Parliament, although in the event they only provided some windows for the House of Lords. James Ballantine was the author of a series of books on the history and techniques of stained glass manufacture, notably A Treatise on Painted Glass, (1845).

His son Alexander Ballantine (1841-1906) joined the firm, which was known as Ballantine and Son from about 1860 until 1892, and then Ballantine and Gardiner until 1905, when Herbert Gardiner joined as a partner. From 1905 Alexander Ballantine was joined by his son James Ballantine III (1878-1940), by then the firm was known as A. Ballantine & Son. Some work by the firm was signed with the alternative spelling of Ballantyne.

Further reading

Rona H. Moody, '200 Scottish Stained Glass Artists' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xxx (2006), 166–7.

'Glass Painters 1750–1850' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 1 (1959–60), 327.

Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 8.

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Do you have some information about stained glass windows in St. Saviours Anglican Church (Latvia, Riga). They were made by Ballantine and Son and were destroyed after WWII. And we do not have any kind of information about original stained glass.
Thank you!
Submitted by: Enija (2016-05-23 10:34:36)
Editor's response: If anyone out there knows anything I will endeavour to forward it on to Enija.

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	Virtues firm/studio: Ballantine & Allan about 1853 Church of St Digain, Llangernyw, Conwy south wall of the south transept
	The Annunciation to the Shepherds and Ascension firm/studio: Ballantine & Allan about 1856 Church of St Eurgain and St Peter, Northop, Flintshire north wall of the north aisle
	Women Performing Acts of Mercy firm/studio: James Ballantine and Son 1861 Church of Corpus Christi, Tremeirchion, Denbighshire chancel
	Women Performing Acts of Mercy firm/studio: James Ballantine and Son 1861 Church of Corpus Christi, Tremeirchion, Denbighshire chancel
	The Four Evangelists firm/studio: James Ballantine and Son 1862 Church of St Elian, Llanelian-yn-Rhôs, Denbighshire east wall of north aisle
	The Crucifixion firm/studio: James Ballantine and Son about 1862 Church of St Elian, Llanelian-yn-Rhôs, Denbighshire chancel (window number: I)
	The Adoration of the Magi firm/studio: James Ballantine and Son 1866 Church of Corpus Christi, Tremeirchion, Denbighshire north wall of the north transept
	Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane firm/studio: James Ballantine and Son 1881 Church of Emmanuel, Buckley, Flintshire east wall of the chancel
	Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the Road to Emmaus firm/studio: James Ballantine and Son about 1890 Church of St Mary the Virgin, Denbigh, Denbighshire (liturgical) south wall
	The Baptism of Christ and the Ascension firm/studio: A. Ballantine and Gardiner 1892 Church of St Llwchaiarn, Llanmerewig, Powys east wall (window number: I)

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