Hove in the Past: Cox & Barnard of Hove (Stained Glass Windows)

David Sharp & Judy Middleton 2002 (revised 2023)

Cox & Barnard was a famous firm specialising in stained-glass, and strongly rooted at Hove. The business started off in a humble way with a different name and small premises at 7 Blatchington Road.

In fact, the business was founded by Brighton born Albert William Loomes in 1901, and his name was still to be found on old drawings kept at the office.

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Number 7 Blatchington Road, Hove, where Oliver Cox and William Barnard
worked under the direction of Albert Loomes until they took over the business
in 1920

Loomes died in 1920 and he left his business to two of his employees who worked for him as glass-cutters. There were Oliver Cox and William Barnard. Cox was a quiet, pleasant man of short stature who oversaw the administration side, while Barnard was more down to earth, but they both continued to ply their trade as glass-cutters, and they employed a strict Victorian-style foreman.

The artist Harry Mileham (1873-1957) moved from Beckenham to live at 42, Osmond Road, Hove in 1917. Mileham was educated at Dulwich College, then the Lambeth Schools, and finally in 1892 he attended the Royal Academy Schools. The works of Giotto and Raphael were major influences on Mileham’s style, while from the contemporary scene he admired the works of Burne Jones. He remained faithful to his particular style long after the Victorian genre had fallen out of favour. Mileham frequently collaborated with Cox & Barnard. Some of his designs, that were manufactured by Cox & Barnard can be seen in the Sussex churches of St Mary's Kemp Town, Brighton, St Stephen’s Seaford, Holy Trinity, High Hurstwood and in Norfolk at St Mary’s Kelling. Harry Mileham has been dubbed Hove’s lost Pre-Raphaelite.

See 42 Osmond Road for a more details of Harry Mileham’s artistic career, his magnificent paintings of the Stations of the Cross are shown on the St Thomas the Apostle page (now on permanent displayed in St Mary’s Kemp Town, Brighton).

142 Old Shoreham Road, Hove.

Cox and Barnard decided that the premises at Blatchington Road were too small if they wanted to expand, which they did. They moved to 142 Old Shoreham Road, Hove in 1923, and although it was only single-storey building, it was designed in such a way that a second floor could be added, and this was eventually done.

Leslie Aylward started work at Cox & Barnard in 1945, and he retired in April 1996. Aylward had been encouraged to apply for a job by his uncle Jack Lindfield who was an employee. Aylward served an apprenticeship of six years, and at the outset he earned 13/6d a week.

Leslie had fond memories of the large studio that took up the front of the building, and was occupied by five artists kept busy painting stained-glass window designs. The firm employed no less that twenty-four glaziers who had to work four to a bench, and there were two glass-cutters.

Examples of the firm’s work locally are widespread. For example, when the Nevill Road / Nevill Avenue area was developed, they created the decorative stained-glass windows. Indeed, they must have been responsible for many, many examples. One only has to think of the Thirties semi-detached house with its three panelled front door with leaded-light inset in the door and matching porch window.

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A typical example of a front door window and matching hallway window, which Cox & Barnard would have produced for the new housing estates springing up around Brighton, Hove and Portslade in the 1930s. These ‘simple’ designs would have been an ideal starting point for apprentice craftsman to learn their trade before moving on to the Company’s premier business in commissions for churches, civic buildings, hotels, restaurants and grand houses.

That Art Nouveau style has now come full circle and is popular once more. Sometimes, the firm was requested to repair a piece that they recognised as having been designed and made by them 50 or 60 years previously.

Cox & Barnard & Meaford's Anglican Church - 'A New Life for Broken Glass'

Probably, the pinnacle achievement in Cox & Barnard’s long company’s history was in 1946, when they gained international recognition for their craftsmanship and expertise, in their assembling of over 120 stained glass fragments at the request of Major (Revd) Harold Appleyard, for a War Memorial in Christ Church Anglican, Meaford, Ontario, Canada.

Christ Church Anglican Meaford is situated within the Diocese of Huron and located on the edge of Nottawasaga Bay, a sub basin of Georgian Bay with an outlet into Lake Huron (one of North America’s Great Lakes). An Anglican wooden church was built at Meaford in 1862 which was replaced with a permanent stone built church in the late 1870s. The architectural style of Christ Church has elements of the Early English church design so much loved by Victorians in the days of Empire.

The architectural design of Christ Church, Meaford, loved by its local community, would never get a mention when set against the grand designs of the great Cathedrals and Churches of Canada, but what Christ Church Meaford has, are unique features, unmatched amongst the whole of Canada’s ecclesiastical buildings and set within its own walls, namely the War Memorial, made from European stained glass fragments dating from the Late Medieval until the Late Victorian period of history.

Leslie Aylward was still an apprentice at Cox & Barnard and clearly remembers the occasion when Major Appleyard arrived at the Cox & Barnard workshop in Old Shoreham Road, Hove. Major Appleyard wanted the craftsmen to use the ‘old traditional method of using sawdust to dry the cement between the pieces of stained glass in the memorial windows’ for Meaford’s Church.

The Christ Church memorial windows were assembled from coloured glass fragments from 125 English and Welsh churches, as well as a few from Ireland, France, Belgium and Holland. Fragments of stained glass were also collected from some of the great cathedrals of the United Kingdom, namely:- In England - Canterbury, Chichester, Winchester, Bristol, Coventry, Manchester, St Paul’s London, Exeter and from Wales – Llandaff.

This enlarged image is from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 3,
At the start of the Second World War all Medieval Stained Glass was removed
from Canterbury Cathedral, but much of the Victorian glass was left in place,
of which this is an example and subjected to bomb damage.
The subject of this windows appears to be The Raising of Jairus's Daughter,
in the right corner of this window a foot of a recumbent figure
can be seen, the accompany right panel window to this
theme was probably completely destroyed in the bomb blast.

Canterbury Cathedral has a particular significance to the worldwide Anglican Communion to which Meaford uniquely has, a material connection as well, in the form of its own Canterbury Cathedral's stained glass set within its Christ Church windows.

This enlarged image from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 4,
is a Victorian window from Canterbury Cathedral,
an Angel is holding a banner with the Latin inscription‘Timoratus’,
which translates to either:- God-Fearing, Devout, Reverent.

Some of the Meaford stained glass dates from the 14^th century, pre-dating the foundation of the nation states of Canada and the United States of America by many hundreds of years. It could be said that some of Meaford’s oldest windows have stood witness to the faith for over 700 years pre-dating every ecclesiastical building in North America.

The significance of the Meaford Memorial Windows installation in 1946 may have been lost to subsequent generations outside of Ontario. The official unveiling of the Christ Church Memorial Windows was actually carried out by Mabel Randle and Winnie Hackett, two mothers in the parish who had lost sons in the war. The event was thought so important, that CBC-Radio Canada broadcast live the whole Memorial Service from Christ Church on 11^th August 1946. This Memorial Service was re-broadcast by BBC Radio in London to the whole of the UK and subsequently re-broadcast again by the BBC World Service Radio to Europe and beyond. The New York Times and a number of Ontario's newspapers sent reporters to cover the event.

If the Anglican Church of Canada had such an item as an ‘Ecclesiastical Crown’ then surely Christ Church, Meaford, would be one of its ‘jewels’.

The story of the Meaford stained glass windows starts in 1941 when Major, the Revd Harold Appleyard, was posted to southern England, in the Sussex town of Horsham with the Royal Regiment of Canada.

Revd Harold Appleyard MC, DD (later to become Bishop Appleyard of Georgian Bay)

The following article has been re-printed here by kind permission of Christ Church Anglican, Meaford, which was co-authored by David Appleyard, Edward Appleyard and Nancy (née Appleyard) Fraser, (Bishop Harold Appleyard’s children) :-

When the Reverend Harold Appleyard was appointed rector of Christ Church, Meaford, in 1938, he looked forward to a lengthy tenure. He had been born in the rectory of St. George’s Church, Clarksburg, and his father had been the rector both there and at Fairmount. This would be like coming home for him. However, the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 and the terrible news of young men from Meaford dying overseas brought about a change of his plans.

Signing up as a military chaplain in 1941 with the rank of (honorary) captain, Appleyard soon found himself posted to an embattled southern England.

The destruction appalled him – homes, factories, schools – and so many churches. Almost immediately he began to collect shards of stained glass from the shattered windows of damaged churches. It is uncertain when he got the idea for the memorial windows, but his diaries reveal his intentions after only two months abroad.

One night he was on volunteer fire duty in the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. There he met Mr. G. S. Sherrin, an architect appointed by the Crown with responsibility for the ancient churches of London. Mr. Sherrin was enthusiastic about the young chaplain’s idea and referred him to the Cox & Barnard Stained Glass Works in Hove, near Brighton in Sussex.

To Captain Appleyard’s great joy, Mr. Cox offered to design and re-lead the glass to fit Christ Church, Meaford, and he would do it free of charge in gratitude to Canadians for their war efforts!

As long as he was in England he collected and carefully labelled bits of glass from scores of churches, large and small. Then, when his regiment moved to the continent in 1944, in the wake of the D-Day invasion, he continued his quest in France, Belgium and Holland.

It was usually possible to get permission from the church to remove the bits of seemingly unusable glass, and his diaries often refer to vicars or vergers giving him pieces for the memorial windows. Sherrin became so enthusiastic that he collected pieces from churches under his authority and passed them on for the Meaford windows.

When the war ended in 1945, Appleyard, now a major, returned to his Meaford parish. It was a proud day for the people of Meaford when a stage was erected in front of the Meaford Town Hall for the Governor-General, Lord Alexander of Tunis, to award the local Anglican rector the Military Cross for “calm courage, disregard of his own safety, and steadfastness of purpose”. It was a proud day for Appleyard as well, because his father had been awarded the same medal in World War I.

Then on August 11, 1946, the memorial windows were unveiled by Mabel Randle and Winnie Hackett, two mothers in the parish who had lost sons in the war. The church was packed, and the service was broadcast live on CBC radio and later in the British Isles and Europe.

From left to right:- Captain the Revd A. C. Gordier, Hon. Major the Revd Harold F. Appelyard the Rector of Christ Church Anglican, Lt-Col the Revd C. G. F. Stone and the Colonel the Revd Canon K. Taylor, Senior Chaplain of Canadian Forces in Northern Europe), who all officiated at the unveiling of the Memorial Windows at Meaford on August 11, 1946.

Today these windows stand as a memorial to local men who paid the ultimate price of war. They contain many tiny pieces of coloured glass from some 125 English and Welsh churches as well as a few from Ireland, France, Belgium and Holland. With shards as old as 700 years or more, they are among the oldest glass in this continent.

Between the windows in the nave of the church hangs a plaque inscribed with the names of six members of the parish. It is fire scorched from war damage and was a piece of a pew from Christ Church, St. James Park, Westminster. It was also given to Captain Appleyard by the architect, Mr. Sherrin.

In the cloister between the church and the parish hall are three more windows. The one on the right (Parish Hall side) contains a large panel from Canterbury Cathedral, “gladly granted” to Appleyard by the Dean and Chapter in 1943. The left window (church side) is chiefly made up of glass from the churches designed by the 17^th century architect, Sir Christopher Wren, donated to Appleyard for the Meaford church war memorial by Mr. Sherrin. The centre window was commissioned and donated by Appleyard himself in gratitude for his safe return from battle.

Appleyard left Meaford in November 1949. Just over 11 years later, he was elected Bishop of Georgian Bay. In 1970 he became Bishop Ordinary as well to the Canadian Armed Forces. The Right Reverend Harold Appleyard, MC, DD, died in London, Ontario in 1982, shortly before his 77^th birthday.

Meaford Church & The Diocese of Chichester.

During the Second World War it was said that the County of Sussex was virtually one large Canadian Army Camp as the Canadian army were responsible for the defence of the Sussex coastline.

All the bomb damaged stained glass that Major Revd Appleyard collected in Sussex was from its coastal towns and villages, all within his very large Canadian Army ‘Sussex Parish’. Major Appleyard was based in Horsham which is 16 miles from the Sussex coastline.

The Diocese of Chichester is well represented in Meaford Church, by bomb damaged stained glass from the length of the coastal area of the County of Sussex, a distance of 80 miles, listed below from east to west:-

St Mary the Virgin, Rye.

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This enlarged image is from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 1.
The glass fragments of colours and a star came from St Mary the Virgin, Rye.
Star of the Sea (Stella Maris) an ancient title for the Virgin Mary.

Rye has a small harbour and the ancient Church would have been
a landmark for sailors out at the sea.

St Thomas the Martyr, Winchelsea.

copyright © Christ Church Anglican, Meaford.
This enlarged image is from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 1.
These coloured glass fragments came from St Thomas the Martyr, Winchelsea,

which is a mystery, as the Church did not suffer any bomb damage during the
Second World War. It is possible the fragment came from a repair in the Church
by Cox & Barnard in the 1930s.

St Mary Magdalene, Hastings.

copyright © Christ Church Anglican, Meaford.
This enlarged image is from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 2,
came from St Mary Magdalene, Hastings.

St John the Evangelist, St Leonards.

copyright © Christ Church Anglican, Meaford.
This enlarged image is from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 2.
The head of an ox, probably from a lost nativity scene,
came from St John the Evangelist in St Leonards

St Barnabas, Bexhill.

copyright © Christ Church Anglican, Meaford.
This enlarged image is from the
Meaford Memorial Window Number 1,
came from St Barnabas, Bexhill

St Anne, Eastbourne (destroyed in the Second World War)

copyright © Christ Church Anglican, Meaford.
This enlarged image is from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 2,
came from St Anne's Eastbourne

St John the Evangelist in Eastbourne.

copyright © Christ Church Anglican, Meaford.
This enlarged image is from the
Meaford Memorial Window Number 2.
came from St John the Evangelist in Eastbourne.

All Saints, Brighton, (later demolished - coloured glass fragments from this Church are parts of the Meaford windows, but cannot be identified at present)

Holy Trinity, Brighton.

This enlarged image is from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 1
and is a portrayal of St George and came from the bombed damaged
Holy Trinity, Brighton.

This enlarged image is from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 2

The central themes in these two windows are the remains from the Holy Trinity Brighton's larger window that originally depicted the four Evangelists together. On the left is St Matthew and on the right is the winged lion, a symbol associated with St Mark. This ancient lion symbol derives from St Mark’s description of John the Baptist’s voice “crying out in the wilderness” upon hearing the Word of God (Mark 1:3). His voice is said to have sounded like that of a roaring lion.

St John the Evangelist, Brighton.

The central stained glass image shows St John, and originally
came from the bomb damaged St John the Evangelist in Brighton.

Chichester Cathedral (see below)

St Mary's Hospital (Almshouses) Chapel, Chichester - (coloured glass fragments from this Chapel are parts of the Meaford windows, but cannot be identified at present)

Holy Trinity in Bosham, (Bosham is famed in British history because of King Canute, who tried to command the tides of the sea to go back - coloured glass fragments from this Church are parts of the Meaford windows, but cannot be identified at present) .

Meaford Church & Chichester Cathedral

Probably the most significant large fragment of stained glass in the Meaford windows which is of historic importance to the County of Sussex, is the portrayal of St Richard of Chichester, the Patron Saint of Sussex, set in a 16 inch (40 cm) diameter panel. This ‘St Richard window’ was saved by Major Revd Appleyard from the bomb damaged Chichester Cathedral in 1943. St Richard is shown in red, with possibly, the paralysed laundress called ‘Maud of Bignor (in Sussex)’ whom it is said, St Richard cured.

This enlarged image is from the Meaford Memorial Window Number 1,
is from Chichester Cathedral and portrays St Richard with
Maud of Bignor, whom it is said, St Richard cured.
This window dates from the late medieval era.

Major Revd Appleyard was not always greeted with open arms. Some of the parishioners in Chichester considered him bad luck. Chichester had never been bombed in the Second World War until the Major arrived. By extraordinary coincidence there was a bombing raid while he was on a sight seeing tour of the Cathedral. Two bombs were dropped, one landed near the Cathedral blowing out the north windows.

Major Revd Appleyard stated, “Some said the raid had been staged just for me ! of course I picked up some of the glass fragment.”

Medieval pilgrims believed that miracles could occur with a visit to St Richard's Shrine in Chichester Cathedral. In 1538 King Henry VIII ordered the complete destruction of this shrine.

Meaford Church Windows Postscript


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In 1946 the British Government eventually woke up to what the stained glass craftsmen of Cox & Barnard had undertaken for Christ Church Anglican, Meaford, and a law was passed forbidding the export of precious and ancient glass fragments. But it was too late for the ‘Appleyard windows’, which had already been shipped off to Canada.

Some may be critical of these ancient stained glass fragments leaving the United Kingdom, but this must be weighed against the fact, that if Major Appleyard had not rescued these glass fragments from unstable bombed church rubble, they would probably have been lost to the history of art for ever. During the Second World War when in many areas of the United Kingdom, its housing stock, hospitals, civic buildings, churches and schools were destroyed or severely damaged and 1000s of people homeless, the last thing on the population’s mind, who were under the constant threat of a bombing raids, was to look for broken glass !

Major Appleyard acted honourably in every respect when collecting smashed glass fragments. He always obtained the express permission from the relevant church authorities for every glass fragment he rescued.

Cox & Barnard of Hove were a remarkable company of stained glass craftsmen. In post-war Britain, when there was an enormous amount of money to be made by glass makers in re-building a war ravaged country, it was an amazing act of generosity that they were able to donate 1000s of man-hours to Major Appleyard for free and only charged for the raw materials they used in assembling the windows. Cox & Barnard must have been completely captivated by Major Revd Appleyard’s personality and vision for this ‘jigsaw puzzle of a broken glass war memorial' at Meaford, for what they may have thought at the time ‘an obscure Anglican parish church in the far corner of Ontario, rather than for some grand Canadian Cathedral.’

On the presentation of the Memorial Windows to Christ Church Meaford, Cox & Barnard stated “as a token of gratitude for what our Canadian friends have done for us.”

Canadians in Brighton, Hove & Portslade

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The Royal Canadian Regiment driving past Brighton’s famous Royal Pavilion on their way to the coast for defence duties in April 1940. (The Royal Pavilion is 3 miles from Cox & Barnard in Hove)

During the Second World War it was said that the County of Sussex was virtually one large Canadian Army Camp as the Canadian army were responsible for the defence of the Sussex coastline.

Close to Cox & Barnard’s workshop in Hove, just over 2 miles away, was Portslade Old Village with its Canadian presence. The Edmonton Regiment (part of the 1^st Canadian Division), Calgary Highlanders and Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada were all stationed at various times in the war in Portslade Brewery (requisitioned, because it was the largest building in Portslade). Some of these men found sweethearts in Portslade and the marriage register of St Nicolas bears witness to the fact.

If Major Appleyard ever made a pastoral visit to the Canadian troops at Portslade, and because of his love of church architecture, he would have surely visited the ancient Norman Church of St Nicolas, just 5 minutes walk from the Canadians stationed in the Portslade Brewery. Fortunately for St Nicolas Church its stained glass remained intact throughout the war.

Sylvia Wright was a young school girl living close to Portslade Brewery in Southdown Road and remembered how friendly the Canadian soldiers were. Local children were very fond of the Canadians as they always seemed to have bars of chocolate in their pockets which they freely gave out to the children in the village. Chocolate was a very rare commodity in war-time Britain.

Royal Canadian Air Force Flight Officer Robert (Bobby) Stewart of Winnipeg, spent all his leave in Portslade at his Scottish born uncle’s home in Trafalgar Road. Coincidently his uncle, David Sharp, was a Canadian Army veteran of the First World War. Flight Officer Bobby Stewart was involved in many air raids over Germany and ‘Mentioned in Despatches’ several times. Sadly in 1943, Bobby was reported missing in action in Europe and presumed dead.
In 1995 The Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, named a lake as a memorial to Flight Officer Robert Stewart in his home Province of Manitoba. Two of David Sharp's daughters married Canadian soldiers who were stationed in Portslade and after the Second World they emigrated Canada with their husbands.

See the Web-Links at the foot of this page for more detailed information on the Parish of Christ Church Anglican, Meaford. Ontario, Canada.

Livingstone Road

The three properties in the above photograph were collectively known under the same street number address, being Number 56 Livingstone Road. When number 56 was built in the early 1870s there was an undeveloped section of land, between number 56 and the house number 58. In the 1880s the Hove Parochial Institute and in 1890 the Hove Council Public Baths were built. The residents of the Livingstone Road area had petitioned Hove Council for Public Baths as their houses had been built without their own bathrooms. The cost of a bath at Livingstone Road Public Baths was one penny and an extra half-penny if a towel was required.

In the 1890s the building on the left was Hove Crèche, which was run by a Mrs E. Leaney, the central ecclesiastical styled building was the Hove Parochial Institute (All Saints Church) and far right the Hove Council Public Baths.

In the 1930s the occupants of the three buildings were, St John’s Ambulance & Nursing Division, St Barnabus Institute and Hove Council Public Baths.

Cox & Barnard moved from 148 Old Shoreham Road in 1958 to the building on the left in the above photograph, the former St Barnabus Institute premises was now occupied by the Florida Beachwear Ltd, and far right was still the Hove Council Public Baths.

In the 1960s the three buildings were occupied by Cox & Barnard, Siran Motor Accessories and Hove Council Public Baths.

In 1973 the Kelly's Street Directory shows that Cox & Barnard were the only occupants of the Number 56 site.

In 1983 the company’s designer, Ian Mcfarlane, designed a special window, which could be seen in the reception area. The window depicted three old-style claw-footed baths; in the top one, a mother and child are bathing; in the middle one, an elegant nude woman sits on a pink towel, draped over the bath; and in the bottom bath an exhausted workman snoozes, cloth cap on his head, hands clasped on his protuberant stomach. At the bottom left, a bowler-hatted man wearing a white apron carries a box of yellow soap, while at the bottom right stands a stout woman with spectacles on her nose and hair drawn back in a bun. Her swollen feet are clad in bar-strap shoes and she carries a mound of pink bath towels. All the elements of the composition are linked by copper piping to an enormous boiler into which coal is being shovelled.

Also in the reception area was a heraldic shield bearing three bull’s heads with a Welsh motto underneath Y droddefodd y orfy. It is the arms of the Morgan family and Barry Morgan owned the firm in the late 1990s, although sadly the firm became bankrupt in January 1994.

Religious Glass

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Three stained glass windows manufactured by Cox & Barnard
for St Phillip's Church, Aldrington, Hove.
Left to right:- St George designed by Anthony Gilbert (1955),
St Cecilia designed by P. Chapman (1960) and Charity (1960)

The firm manufactured stained glass windows for churches throughout southern England:- Essex:- 1 window, Hampshire:- 1 window, Kent:- 5 windows and Surrey:- 2 windows. Cox & Barnard's main work was for Sussex churches, for which they made stained glass windows for 32 churches.

The local area of Brighton, Hove and Portslade is well represented with Cox & Barnard stained glass windows:-

Church of the Sacred Heart, Norton Road, Hove

St Andrew’s Church, Moulescoomb, Brighton

St Mary’s Church (Roman Catholic), Preston Park, Brighton

St Nicolas Church, Portslade – St Nicolas is depicted in a small light in the tower in memory of A. C. Wheatland, verger, 1946

St Philip’s Church, New Church Road, Aldrington, Hove.

St Thomas the Apostle, Davigdor Road, Hove (now the Coptic Orthodox Church)

Synagogue, Holland Road, Hove

Synagogue, Middle Street, Brighton (the firm restored some of the old glass – it is now a listed building)

Synagogue, New Church Road, Hove – some lovely work including windows representing the twelve tribes of Israel. This synagogue has been now been demolished to make way for a large development for the Jewish community. Perhaps the stained-glass has been preserved for future use.

Cox & Barnard continued to design new stained glass, as well as working on restorations. For example, the firm restored some windows at Lancing College Chapel, but unfortunately they were pipped at the post, and did not receive the commission to design the dramatic rose window.

Nowadays, church stained-glass windows are usually protected from being vandalised from outside by galvanized wire guards, or the new polycarbonate sheeting.

Secular Glass

Metropole Hotel, Brighton

Hove Town Hall (designed by Waterhouse) a triangular panel depicting Hove’s coat-of-arms in the canopy over the entrance. (Alas, no longer with us).

Brighton Museum

In 1989 The Royal Pavilion & Museums Review published a story about two large stained glass windows rescued in 1988 by the building developers from the former Courts Furniture Stores building in Brighton.

The two large stained glass windows depict the Sacred Ibis in the bulrushes and date from the late 1890s. The artist and manufacturer were not known for certain, but very similar designs of these Ibis windows were found in the archives of Cox & Barnard.

Cox & Barnard restored these rescued stained glass windows and presented them to Brighton Museum on the 31 October 1988.

The Presentation of one of the two Ibis stained glass windows on 31 October 1988
to Brighton Museum.
left to right:- Barry Morgan of Cox & Barnard, Stella Beddoe, Philip Ackroyd
and Cliff Collins.

Update

It seems that Cox & Barnard are no more, having been described variously as ‘defunct 2016 ‘ and ‘now inactive’ with their last address being in Swansea.

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We are grateful to The Rev. Brendon Bedford of the Parish of Christ Church Anglican, Meaford, for his help and encouragement, and for granting us permission to publish Christ Church’s War Memorial photographs.

For more detailed information, on Christ Church's History, Mission, Services, Church Activities & Events, etc., see the Parish's website at this web-link:- (Parish Website) - Christ Church Anglican, Meaford,

or the Parish's Facebook page at this web-link:- (Facebook) - Christ Church Anglican, Meaford

Christ Church Anglican, 34 Boucher Street E., Meaford, Ontario, Canada, N4L 1B9

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Sources

Canada:-

Christ Church Anglican, Meaford, Ontario.

Mr David Appleyard

Mr Edward Appleyard

Mrs Nancy (née Appleyard) Fraser

Roberta Avery A Memorial to Shattered Cathedrals (1996) & The Memorial Windows (Christ Church visitor’s guide, 1996)

The Rev. Brendon Bedford

Meaford Express

The Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names

The Diocese of Huron, Canada

England:-

Middleton, J. Encyclopaedia of Hove and Portslade

Mr G. Osborne

Personal interview

Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove

23 March 2023

Cox & Barnard of Hove (Stained Glass Windows)