Thursday 23^rd May

Doors open at 1pm for a 1.15pm start. Free entry to all events. Booking essential.

For more information or to book a place please telephone or email Bradford Local Studies Library, Telephone 01274 433688, Email local.studies@bradford.gov.uk.

Bradford Local Studies Library, Margaret McMillan Tower, Princes Way, BD1 1NN.

Stained and painted glass has embellished places of worship since Anglo-Saxon times, but huge numbers of medieval glass windows were destroyed at the Reformation and during the English Civil War. The vigorous Victorian industry revived the practices and designs of medieval glass making to create a magnificent heritage of sacred and secular glass, with William Morris & Co. being only one of a group of gifted glass artists. Locally important glass can be seen at the Cathedral and many local parish churches such as Ilkley, Skipton and Haworth. Bradford Museums & Galleries deserve great praise for their curation and display of glass at Bolling Hall and Cliffe Castle, Keighley.