The works of Veronica Whall provides a list of works carried out by Veronica Whall (1887–1967).
Whall predominantly created stained glass works for churches and cathedrals. She started out assisting her father, Christopher Whall, in stained glass commissions, such as that at All Saints in Valescure, France, in 1918-19 and the St Christopher window in Sproughton, Suffolk, in 1924.
Aside from being a stained glass artist and designer, Whall also worked in watercolour. One such work was "The elf hour" which was exhibited at The New Gallery's Summer Exhibition of 1907. In 1912 Whall wrote and illustrated "The Story of Peterkin in the Wood". Whall also illustrated a book that was a selection of folk-songs, under the title "Ships, Sea-Songs and Shanties" written by a relative, Captain William Boultbee Whall. Captain Whall was a mariner and writer on nautical subjects. The selection was published in 1910 by James Brown & Son in Glasgow.
For more on this important stained glass artist and the history of the art in this period, see Peter Cormack, Arts & Crafts Stained Glass (London & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).
The following is a list of some of Whall's stained glass work. She also designed windows for St Wilfred's Church in Brighton, and performed restoration work following the war for the Roman Catholic Church of St Mary in Clapham.
| Building | Location | Date(s) | Subject, notes and references | |||||
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| St Michael & All Angels' Church | Bude, Cornwall | There is a Whall window in the Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Bude Haven which was built between 1834 and 1835 and consecrated in 1835 and was the gift of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland. Built of stone from Trerice-in-Newlyn, it stands on the southern side of the harbour. It was built originally as a chapel of ease for the nearby Stratton Church but later became the Parish Church of Bude Haven. Standing on a hill above the historic Bude Canal, the church is visible across the beautiful beaches and Downs of Bude. Whall completed a window for this church.[1] | ||||||
| St Martin's Cathedral | Leicester, Leicestershire | Two windows were completed for the cathedral's St Dunstan's Chapel.[2] | ||||||
| St Mary's Church | Lynton, Devon | 1907 | Whall completed a lancet in the North Chapel of St Mary's entitled "St Anne and the Virgin". In The Buildings of England: Devon by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, this work was described as "a fine composition of blue, purple and greens." Whall also completed a window in the West of the church | |||||
| St Peter's Church | Swinton, Greater Manchester | 1932 | A Whall three-light window in St Peter's dating to 1932 depicts the Saints Francis, Hilda and Columba. This church also has a window dating to 1912 which was a joint collaboration between Veronica, her father and Edward Woore. This church is a fine building of stone with a lofty Western Tower and was built to designs by G.E. Street in 1869. Interesting to note that the lych-gate, between the churchyard and the street, was added as a War Memorial after World War I, and features carvings by John Cassidy. It was unveiled in 1922, and is now a Grade II listed structure. The names of Swinton's war dead are inscribed inside the arch. | |||||
| St Bede's Chapel | Greenwich, Connecticut | 1915 | The chapel, on the campus of Rosemary Hall (an independent girls school), was designed by Theodore T Blake and described in the New York Times in 1909 as the "only example of pure Middle English Gothic architecture in America". Veronica assisted her father Christopher in designing the 16-foot stained window at the North end of the Chapel which was installed in 1915. The window honours the Venerable Bede, the patron Saint of Education. The window comprises six main lights and fifteen pieces of tracery. From left to right the lights depict St Bede, St Anne, St Benedict, St Catherine of Siena, St Gregory and St Francis of Assisi. The figures occupy the upper, two sections with their names inscribed above and in the lower section under the saints name are vignettes of girls learning different subjects. These from left to right are Natural Sciences, Grammar, Discipline in the home, Arts, Music and Health and Play. In the centre of the tracery is a depiction of some angels, surrounded by quarry glazed tracery pieces . In the lower, large tracery sections are angels holding titles of desirable traits; Vision (Visus), Admiration (Admiratio), Speech (Oratio), Prayer (Preces), Hearing (Auditus), Praise (Laus), Thought (Mens) and Loving (Spes Amor). Veronica was responsible for designing all the angels in the tracery.[3] | |||||
| St Mary's Church | Cheadle, Cheshire | 1921 | Christopher Whall had already completed a major window for this church in 1917 and Veronica added a window on the south side of the chapel. | |||||
| Methodist Church | Whalley, Lancashire | 1921 and 1927 | Whall executed two windows in the North and South of the church. The 1921 window features the Virgin and Child with a musician cherub and a chorus of birds as well as rabbits and mice. The 1927 commission features St Francis with birds as well as large figures with good lettering[4] | |||||
| St Mary's Church | Sarnesfield, Herefordshire | 1922 | The window in this church is attributed to Whall and Whall. 1922 was the year the company was established. It is a two-light window with St George in the left hand light and an Angel in the right hand light. The inscription reads "Be thou faithful unto death" (left hand light) and "and I will give thee a crown of life" (right hand light). | |||||
| St John the Evangelist's Church | Keswick, Cumbria | 1923 | St John the Evangelist has a three-light window dedicated to John Marshall of Derwent Island (nephew of the church founder) who died on 23 December 1923. In The Buildings of England. Cumberland, Westmorland. Furness Matthew Hyde and Nikolaus Pevsner write "with tenderly drawn children" in their reference to this work. John Marshall was a grandson of Henry Cowper Marshall. John Marshall and his younger brothers helped to establish the National Trust.[5] | |||||
| St Catherine's Church | Irchester, Northamptonshire | 1924 | Three-light window in St Catherine's North Nave depicts the life and martyrdom of St Catherine. | |||||
| Victoria and Albert Museum | South Kensington Inner London | 1925 | This museum has a window by Whall. It features a trumpeting angel and is inscribed with a quotation from St Matthew's Gospel "Usque ad consummationem seculi" – "I am with you even unto the end of time." These were Jesus Christ's words at His Ascension. | |||||
| St Martin of Tours Church | Chelsfield, Kent | 1925 | Whall executed a window in the South Chancel of this church. The left hand light shows St Martin astride his horse and handing half of his cloak to a beggar and in the other light Martin kneels before Our Lord who is seen holding the piece of cloak.[6] | |||||
| St Mary's Church | Compton, Sussex | 1926 | Whall's window is the fourth light in the South Aisle window. It is entitled "Charity" and was a Whall and Whall commission.[7] | |||||
| Carlisle Cathedral | Carlisle, Cumbria | 1926 | Pevsner described Whall's work in St Catherine's Chapel as "a beautiful and poignant window to a young man killed at Arras in 1916." Arthur Penn and Edna Mallett in their booklet- 'Carlisle Cathedral: The Stained Glass and The Carved Capitals' (Smith, Much Wenlock, 1996) record that the window, featuring the Nativity and the Crucifixion was dedicated to the memory of 2nd Lieut. Anthony Harvey Bowman. | |||||
| St Peter and St Paul's Church | Ewhurst, Surrey | 1926 | Whall's three-light window is known as the "Stevenson Memorial Window" and has "Christ in Majesty" in the centre and a Sower and Reaper to left and right. See image above. See also Maiden Bradley. | |||||
| St Mary's Church | South Hylton, Durham | This church is located near Sunderland. Built in 1880 by C. Hodgson Fowler as the earlier church had been destroyed by fire in 1878. The church has stained glass by Veronica Whall, James Eadie Reid and Leonard Evetts. The church's windows had to be restored after the 1941 German bombing. Whall's window is of two-lights with the inscription "These are virgins they follow the lamb, withersoever he goeth." The church has links to many shipbuilding families and the Maling and Donnison families.[8] | ||||||
| St Mary's Church | Berry Pomeroy, Devon | 1926 | Window completed in the North Aisle East is a three-light window. The left hand light is inscribed "The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servants" and in that on the right is written "and none of them that trusted Him shall be desolate." | |||||
| All Saints' Church | Exmouth, Devon | 1926 | Three windows for All Saints were completed in the Lady Chapel and Baptistery. | |||||
| All Saints's Church | Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire | A two-light window in memory of Algernon, Duke of Somerset (d.1923). The window was a gift to the church by his wife Susan Seymour and has depictions of the Sower and the Reaper. (See Ewhurst window which is very similar). | ||||||
| St Bartholomew's Church | Nymet Rowland, Devon | 1927 | Whall completed the "Partridge Memorial window" in the South part of the church. The window is in memory of Leonard Partridge and Eleanor Partridge who died in 1922 and 1926 respectively. | |||||
| Holy Trinity Church | Wickwar, Gloucestershire | 1927 | A window was completed in the Tower West. In The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1:The Cotswolds by David Verey and Alan Brooks, the work was described as "entirely in her father's Arts and Crafts style." | |||||
| St Anne's Church | Pleasant Valley, New Zealand | For this church Whall completed her first work in New Zealand. Called "Two Angels in a vine" it was in memory of Ethel H. Moffat. Ethel was Christopher Whall's sister.[9] | ||||||
| Community of the Sacred Name | Canterbury, New Zealand | Whall executed a window for the chapel. It shows the foundress of the Community, Mother Edith Mellish, as St Brigid. In her book "Stained Glass Windows of Canterbury, New Zealand", published by Otago Press, Fiona Ciaran described the window thus "The colours of the glass used and the fine paintwork are extraordinary." | ||||||
| St Thomas's Church | Woodbury, New Zealand | 1927 | For this South Canterbury church, Whall designed the window entitled "An Angel with the Crown of Life". It remembers W. P. Turton who died in December 1926 and was donated by his wife. The church also has a window by Joseph Edward Nuttgens. Another Veronica Whall window is "Christ as the Supreme Angel with St Wendelin and St Elizabeth of Hungary." This dates to 1927 and is dedicated to Cotsford Matthews Burdon and was donated by his wife Mildred. | |||||
| Christchurch Nurses' Memorial Chapel | Christchurch, New Zealand | 1927 and 1928 | The Christchurch Hospital Nurses' Memorial Chapel was built during 1927 and 1928 and is located on the Christchurch Hospital site, fronting Riccarton Avenue in Christchurch, New Zealand. Regarded as an architecturally significant building with a late Gothic Revival structure and an Arts and Crafts Movement-inspired interior that incorporates significant works of art, including stained glass windows by Whall. Whall's windows are "The Angel of Charity and a Waif" which commemorates Mary Ewart, "Faith and a Sick Child" which remembers Sybilla Maude OBE, "Christ and Children" a tribute to Annie Pattrick and "The Angel of Hope"[10] | |||||
| Gloucester Cathedral | Gloucester, Gloucestershire | Window in South Chantrey. A memorial to former Cathedral organist Sir A. H. Brewer (1897–1928). In 1928 Veronica designed the C. W. Whall Memorial window for the south transept. St Christopher is the central figure. | ||||||
| St James's Church | Bossington, Hampshire | 1928 and 1930 | Two windows were completed for this church. In 1928 a stained glass window was executed which featured a lighthouse. Another window was added in 1930. | |||||
| St James's Church | Runcton Holme, Norfolk | 1928 | For St James she executed a two-light window in the South Nave which features "The Annunciation".[11] Window depicts "Mary discovering the empty tomb"[12] | |||||
| St John the Evangelist's Church | Winchester, New Zealand | 1930 | The church has a Veronica Whall stained glass window "The Christ-child blessing in Majesty with emblems of Faith and Hope" in the East Sanctuary in commemoration of Joseph R. Orford, the founder and first headmaster of the church's school.[13] | |||||
| St Michael's Church | Amberley, West Sussex | 1931 | Whall's two-light window features St Edith with child in the right hand light and an angel in that on the left. Window is in memory of Edith Octavia Jennings of Amberley House who died in Florence on 4 June 1931. Church also has a splendid window of 1919 by Robert Anning Bell. St Michael's is a 12th-century church adjacent to Amberley Castle.[14] | |||||
| Church of St Mary | Denbigh, Denbighshire | 1933 | The foundation stone of the church was laid on 6 July 1871. The church has a two-light window by Whall in the South wall of the Nave. The left hand light shows the angel of God in full armour with a flaming sword, and angels above, as the Israelites cross the Red Sea. The left hand light shows John the Baptist baptising Christ in the river Jordan, with the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove. The inscription reads- "'And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them" (Exodus 14:19). "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world'"(John 1:29,36). The text above the angel in the left hand light reads- "'and the waters were divided" (Exodus 14:21). The dedication reads-"'To the glory of God and in memory of Anna Maria Story late of Coppy Denbigh who died 21 November 1918".[15] | |||||
| St John the Baptist | Westfield, Sussex | 1933 | Whall's rose window shows the Madonna and Child with two angels holding the inscription "et revelabitur gloria Domini et videbit omnis caro pariter quod os Domini locutum est" which is from Isaiah 40:5 "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."[16] | |||||
| St Mary's Church | Ashby Folville, Leicestershire | 1934 | Whall designed the North Aisle window which was commissioned by the Smith-Carington family in memory of their mother Elizabeth Prince Smith-Carington and their brother Neville Woodford Smith-Carington MP. The subject is the "Wedding Feast at Cana" and includes items of the Smith-Carington family interests, including Shire horses in the left-hand panel. The drawings of the wedding guests were apparently based on local people. They appear disgruntled at the lack of wine and Mary points to a wine jar with Jesus looking on. The harassed servant girl seems at her wits end while children at the front tuck into oranges and grapes. Outside horses and a ploughman toil in the green fields of Ashby. At the top of the window three small girls depicted as angels look down on proceedings. Information from church guide and supplied by Mrs. Rosemary Holt, a St Mary Churchwarden.Gallery | Whall window in WestfieldImage: Veronica Whall window in Keswick.jpg | Whall window in St John, KeswickImage: Maiden Bradley Window by Veronica Whall.jpg | Maiden Bradley window.Image:St John the Baptist Cardiff.jpg | Window in St John the Baptist Church, CardiffImage:Wedding Feast at Cana-Ashby Folville St Mary.jpg | Window in St Mary's Ashby FolvilleReferences |