E. Liddall Armitage (1887-1967)
Stained glass designer and artist. Edward Liddall Armitage worked as an assistant and glass painter for Karl Parsons from 1920-24, and then for Henry Holiday in the last years of his life. Armitage established himself in North Kensington, London, and his windows were made at Lowndes & Drury's Glass House in Fulham. He also formed a partnership with Victor Drury (1899-1988) in the 1920s. From about 1940 E.L. Armitage worked as a designer for Powell & Sons (Whitefriars).
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Virgin and Child with Christ the Good Shepherd artist: E. Liddall Armitage about 1948 Church of St Brynach, Nevern, Pembrokeshire north wall of the chancel | |
Windows in the North and East of the Chancel from Figures from the Old and New Testaments firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd designer: E. Liddall Armitage about 1958-1959 Church of St Mary, Swansea chancel | |
Christ with the Four Evangelists firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd designer: E. Liddall Armitage about 1959 Church of St Mary, Swansea east wall of the chancel | |
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Mary firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd designer: E. Liddall Armitage designer: Marjorie Walters 1960 Church of St Mary, Swansea north wall of the Lady Chapel |
Further reading
Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 4.
Alan Brooks and Peter Cormack, 'The Artists of the Glass House' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xli (2017), 15.
References
Dennis Hadley and Joan Hadley, 'Henry Holiday, 1839–1927' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xix, no. 1 (1989–90), 53, 67.
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