Shrigley & Hunt (1874-1982)


Firm founded in Lancaster 1874 by Arthur Hunt when he took over Hudson & Shrigley. Having worked for Heaton and Butler & Bayne at the time that Henry Holiday was supplying designs for the firm, he also sought to supply lighter, more natural and intelligible interpretations of biblical and other narratives in stained glass. His principal designer was Carl Almquist, a pupil of Henry Holiday, who with E.H. Jewitt (1849-1929) was responsible for most of the output for forty years. Hunt died in 1917, but the firm continued until 1982 under the leadership of Joseph Fisher (1911-82), who progressively modernised the output of the firm. John Blyth designed for the firm in the 1950s, as did Harry Harvey from the 1950s until the mid-1970s.



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  St John the Baptist with Angels St John the Baptist with Angels
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
probably late nineteenth century
Church of St Mary, Bangor, Gwynedd
south wall of the south aisle (window number: sII)
  The Symbols of the Four Evangelists The Symbols of the Four Evangelists
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
Church of St Mary, Betws-y-coed, Conwy
west wall of the nave
  St David and St Tudful St David and St Tudful
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
designer: Henry Wilson
donor: William Thomas Lewis
1887
Church of St David, Merthyr Tydfil
south wall of the south aisle (Lady Chapel)
  St Michael St Michael
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
designer: Carl Almquist
about 1887
Church of St Bledrws, Betws Bledrws, Ceredigion
west end of the nave
  St David and St Asaph St David and St Asaph
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
1909
St Davids Cathedral, St Davids, Pembrokeshire
north wall of the Chapel of St Thomas
  St Peter St Peter
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
about 1914
Church of St John, Porthmadog, Gwynedd
west wall (window number: sVIII)
  St John the Evangelist St John the Evangelist
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
about 1915
Church of St Mary, Betws-y-coed, Conwy
south wall of the south aisle
  The Risen Christ with St George and St David The Risen Christ with St George and St David
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
about 1920
Church of St Caron, Tregaron, Ceredigion
east wall of the chancel (window number: I)
  St Martin, St George and St Alban St Martin, St George and St Alban
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
1926
Church of St Peter, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire
south wall of the south aisle (window number: sIX)
  St Ursula St Ursula
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
about 1936
Church of St Caron, Tregaron, Ceredigion
south wall of the sanctuary (window number: sII)




Further reading

William Waters, Damozels and Deities: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870–1898 (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2017), pp. 282–311.

William Waters, Stained Glass from Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster and London (Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies University of Lancaster, 2003).

Barrie Armstrong and Wendy Armstrong, The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England: A Handbook (Wetherby: Oblong, 2005), p. 262-3.

Martin Harrison, Victorian Stained Glass (London: 1980), p. 55.





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