Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Digital Archive

Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5284/1132566.

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Paint Loss in Nineteenth-Century Glass

The aim of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of severe paint loss from windows of the mid- to late nineteenth century, commonly known as the ‘borax problem’. Focussing on three case study windows made by Hardman & Co. of Birmingham and installed at Sherborne Abbey, Beverley Minster and All Saints’ Church Emscote, the study addresses historical, technical and conservation aspects of severe paint loss. A. Gilchrist, ‘“The tears wept by our windows”: severe paint loss from stained glass windows of the mid-nineteenth century’, MA thesis (University of York, 2010).