Goddard & Gibbs

The Ascension in St Mark's Church, Myddelton Square, by AE Buss of Goddard & Gibbs, 1962

The firm known as Goddard & Gibbs was formed as a result of the merger in 1938 of Walter Gibbs & Sons and Goddard's Glass Works. The merged firm kept its name despite subsequent takeovers by James Clark & Eaton Ltd and, in 1978, by Charles Clark.[4] The firm and its predecessors all traded in Blackfriars, London,[5] until it eventually operated from studios at 41-49 Kingsland Road in Dalston, London.[6] Late in its history the firm moved to Marlborough House, Cooks Road, Stratford (subsequently demolished for Crossrail works at Pudding Mill Lane).[7] In 2006 it was acquired by Hardman & Co., and ceased to have a separate identity.[8] Hardman itself closed just two years later, and the Goddard & Gibbs archive appears to have been lost at that point.[9]

A successor firm reviving the Goddard & Gibbs name was soon established, initially at Corsham, and subsequently at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, but which now focuses on lead window repairs.[10][11]

The firm had an international reputation for contemporary stained glass as well as the restoration of older stained glass.[12] Early in its history it advertised a unique ability to make embossed glass signs and showboards at 'the shortest notice'.[13] After WWII the firm focused on replacement glass for bomb-damaged churches, as well as for churches in Canada, Ghana, New Zealand, Nigeria, Nyasaland, South Africa and the United States.[14] Goddard & Gibbs' designers included Arthur Edward Buss (1905–99),[15] John Lawson (1932-2009) (who joined in 1970 from Faith Craft),[16] Maud Sumner (1902–85),[17] and George Cooper-Abbs (1901–66).[18] Other designers later in the history of the firm included Caroline Swash,[19] Zoe Angle,[20] Chris Madline, Laura Perry, Louise Watson, Sophie Lister-Hussain and Sharon McMullin.[21]

• Sanctuary windows of St John the Evangelist Church, Newbury, Berkshire, by AE Buss of Goddard & Gibbs, 1955.[22]

Battle of Britain memorial at St James's, Sussex Gardens, London, by AE Buss of Goddard & Gibbs, 1955

• Baptistry window of St James's, Sussex Gardens, London, depicting the Te Deum by AE Buss of Goddard & Gibbs as a Battle of Britain memorial, 1955.[23]

St Michael in St Michael and All Angels, London Fields, by AE Buss of Goddard & Gibbs, 1959

• East window of St Michael and All Angels, Lansdowne Drive, London Fields, depicting St Michael, by AE Buss of Goddard & Gibbs, 1959.[24]
• East window of St Mark's Church, Myddelton Square depicting the Ascension, designed by AE Buss of Goddard & Gibbs, 1962.[25]
• Mural window at the Ramada hotel in Dubai depicting floral displays, designed by John Lawson of Goddard & Gibbs, 1983.[26] The window was 41 metres high and was the tallest stained-glass window in the world.[27] The Ramada was demolished in 2016, and the window was placed into storage.[28]
• East window of Holy Cross and All Saints, Warley Hill, Essex, by John Lawson of Goddard & Gibbs, 1986.[29]
• Glass dome of the Jame' Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque, Kiarong, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, by John Lawson of Goddard & Gibbs, 1994.[30]

West window of Henry VII's Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey depicting royal coats of arms, designed by John Lawson of Goddard & Gibbs, 1995

• West window of Henry VII's Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey depicting royal coats of arms, designed by John Lawson and made by Goddard & Gibbs, 1995.[31]
• Millennium window at St Peter's, Boughton Monchelsea, by John Lawson of Goddard & Gibbs, 2000.[32]
• Windows in the Lady Chapel of All Saints Church, Benhilton, Sutton, depicting Our Lady with the infant Jesus, designed by John Lawson of Goddard & Gibbs, 2001.[33]

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  St Christopher carrying the Christ child in front of the cliffs of Hunstanton in St Edmund's, Hunstanton, by John Lawson of Faith Craft, 1962
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  St Mary Magdalen, Coventry, by AE Buss of Goddard & Gibbs, 1964
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  Christ as the Light of the World in Holy Trinity, Messingham, by John Lawson of Goddard & Gibbs, 1972
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  Christ as the Good Shepherd in St Anne's, Lewes, AE Buss of Goddard & Gibbs, 1987

• Stained glass
• Stained glass - British glass, 1811-1918
• Victorian Era
• Dalle de verre