Ballantine and Gardiner was a Scottish manufacturer of stained-glass windows, one of several names the company worked under.[1]
Ballantine and Gardiner | |
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 The company's work on display at St Serf's Church, Dunning, Scotland | |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | stained glass |
The business was founded in Edinburgh by James Ballantine (1806–1877) and George Allan as Ballantine and Allan. They began making stained glass in the 1830s.
In 1843, they won a competition to design windows for the new Houses of Parliament, although it was subsequently changed to that of the House of Lords.[1][2]
James' son, Alexander (1841–1906), joined the business, which thence became known as Ballantine and Son until 1905. Herbert Gardiner joined in 1905. Alexander's son, James Ballantine III, also joined in 1905, a year before his father's death.[1]
Some of the firm's work was signed with the alternative spelling of Ballantyne.[1]
Selected notable works edit
The company installed the windows of the following buildings:
- Glenormiston House, Innerleithen, 1851
- Sandyford Henderson Church, Glasgow, 1857[3]
- St Serf's Church, Dunning, c. 1900
- House of Lords, London[4]
- Hamilton Old Parish Church - a window representing Jesus, Martha and Mary that was fitted in 1876[5]
- Main hall of Dunoon Burgh Hall (the subject possibly being the building's architect Robert Alexander Bryden)[6]
- St John's Kirk, Perth[7]
- St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
- St Michael's Church, Edinburgh
References edit
- ^ a b c d James Ballantine and Son (about 1828 - about 1925) – Stained Glass in Wales
- ^ Ballantine & Allan, stained glass manufacturers – The National Archives
- ^ Sandyford Henderson Church – Scotland's Churches Trust
- ^ Dunoon Burgh Hall Chronicles, issue 1[permanent dead link]
- ^ Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, Francis H Groome, 1885.
- ^ Stained Glass – Dunoon Burgh Hall
- ^ Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland, Francis Hindes Groome (1901)
Further reading edit
- Rona H. Moody, 200 Scottish Stained Glass Artists, The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xxx (2006), p. 166–7.
- Glass Painters 1750–1850, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 1 (1959–60), p. 327.
- Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 8