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Edward A. Woore (1880-1960)

Stained glass artist and designer. Edward Woore studied under Christopher Whall at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and was later his assistant. After the First World War, he made windows in his own studio as well as designing for other firms. He was also a close friend of Karl Parsons, completing many of his commissions after Karl Parsons' death in 1934. Woore also worked with Arnold Robinson on many windows at the Bristol firm Joseph Bell & Son. Shortly before his death in 1960, Woore retired to Wales.

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	Christ the Good Shepherd with St Francis and St David artist: Edward A. Woore 1926 Church of St Mary, Court Henry, Carmarthenshire south wall of the south transept (window number: sIII)
	St George and St Martin artist: Edward A. Woore 1926 Church of St Mary, Court Henry, Carmarthenshire south wall of the nave
	St Michael with St Nicholas and St George firm/studio: Joseph Bell & Son artist: Edward A. Woore 1948 Church of Stephen and St Tathan, Caerwent, Monmouthshire west wall of the tower

Peter Cormack, Arts and Crafts Stained Glass (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 283–4.

Rachel M. de Montmorency, 'Obituary: Edward Woore (1880-1960)' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 2 (1960–1), 444.

Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 134.