Ballantine and Gardiner explained
Ballantine and Gardiner was a Scottish manufacturer of stained-glass windows, one of several names the company worked under.[James Ballantine and Son (about 1828 - about 1925) – Stained Glass in Wales]
The business was founded in Edinburgh by James Ballantine (1806–1877) and George Allan as Ballantine and Allan. They began making stained glass in the 1830s.
In 1843, they won a competition to design windows for the new Houses of Parliament, although it was subsequently changed to that of the House of Lords.[[1]]
James' son, Alexander (1841–1906), joined the business, which thence became known as Ballantine and Son until 1905. Herbert Gardiner joined in 1905. Alexander's son, James Ballantine III, also joined in 1905, a year before his father's death.
Some of the firm's work was signed with the alternative spelling of Ballantyne.
Selected notable works
The company installed the windows of the following buildings:
- Glenormiston House, Innerleithen, 1851
- Sandyford Henderson Church, Glasgow, 1857[2]
- St Serf's Church, Dunning, c. 1900
- House of Lords, London[3]
- Hamilton Old Parish Church - a window representing Jesus, Martha and Mary that was fitted in 1876[4]
- Main hall of Dunoon Burgh Hall (the subject possibly being the building's architect Robert Alexander Bryden)[5]
- St John's Kirk, Perth[6]
- St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
- St Michael's Church, Edinburgh
Further reading
- Rona H. Moody, 200 Scottish Stained Glass Artists, The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xxx (2006), p. 166–7.
- Glass Painters 1750–1850, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 1 (1959–60), p. 327.
- Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 8
Notes and References
- https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F195530 Ballantine & Allan, stained glass manufacturers
- https://scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/sandyford-henderson-church-glasgow/ Sandyford Henderson Church
- https://www.dunoonburghhall.org.uk/files/67999-DBH-Chronicles.pdf Dunoon Burgh Hall Chronicles, issue 1
- Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, Francis H Groome, 1885.
- https://www.dunoonburghhall.org.uk/stained-glass/ Stained Glass
- https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst9757.html Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland
