Lot 82
WILLIAM MEIKLE & SONS, GLASGOW
ST. ANDREW, STAINED GLASS PANEL, CIRCA 1920
Auction: 13 August 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
comprised of three panels, lower panel 84cm x 77.5cm, middle panel 92cm x 77.5cm, top panel 100cm x 77.5cm
Dimensions
total measurement, 276cm x 77.5cm
Footnote
Built by Sir John James Burnet between 1900 and 1908, Broomhill Congregational Church was one of a series of churches by Burnet where the Arts & Crafts style is combined with Scots Baronial, Romanesque and Gothic architecture. As this was Burnet's own church it is perhaps understandable that he also attended to some of the decorations. The interior (now converted into flats) was Arts & Crafts and the stained glass, offered here, was by William Meikle & Sons, added around 1920.
Originally founded as a "Merchant of Glass and Glazing" firm in 1838 by William Meikle Sr, his sons James Harvie Meikle and William James Meikle began experimenting with a number of different glass techniques and in 1886, expanded the operations of the company to include stained glass. From the beginning the operation was extensive and from sketches from this early period a conservative approach to the designs was adopted. The current examples are by contrast very much in the Arts & Crafts style and show the influence of stained glass designers such as Alf Webster in Glasgow and the influential English designer Christopher Whall. Meikle and Sons windows exist throughout the U.K. including at St. Andrew's Parish Church, Moffat; St. Ninian's Episcopal Church, Glasgow; and Flowerhill Parish Church, Airdrie.
Literature: 'Glasgow' Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland. 1990, p. 378
Donnelly, Michael 'Glasgow Stained Glass', Glasgow 1981, pp. 2334 and 35.