Heaton, Butler & Bayne (1852-1953)
Stained glass firm founded in 1852 by Clement Heaton (1824-82), who was influenced by Pugin. Heaton's research into pigments resulted in an extended range of colours. Prior to establishing his own firm in London, he had previously worked for William Holland. James Butler (1830-1913) became a partner in 1855, and in 1862 Robert Turnill Bayne (1837-1915), who had worked with John Richard Clayton at Clayton & Bell, entered the partnership. The firm continued to be run by their sons and closed in 1953 following the death of Basil Richmond Bayne, by which time most of their work was for clients in North America.
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Signatures and maker's marks
Signature from St Michael the Archangel and St David 1917 Church of St Mary and St Beuno, Whitford, Flintshire north wall of the north aisle (window number: nIII) |
Further reading
William Waters, Angels & Icons: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850–1870 (Abbots Morton: Serapim Press, 2012), pp. 164–242.
S.B.M. Bayne, Heaton, Butler & Bayne: Un Siècle d’Art du Vitrail / A Hundred Years of the Art of Stained Glass (1986).
Martin Harrison, Victorian Stained Glass (London: 1980), pp. 32–3, 78–9 and further references.
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