Stained glass studio formed as a partnership between John Betton of Shrewsbury (1765-1849), and his apprentice, David Evans, in 1815. The earliest known work of John Betton was restoration and installation of medieval and Renaissance stained glass, for churches, cathedrals and private houses, and included the sensitive installation of the early sixteenth-century glass from Herkenrode in the Lady Chapel of Lichfield Cathedral in 1804–5.
Later examples of their 'restoration' amounted to the making of copies of medieval stained glass, and the discarding (or more likely the sale) of original glass, notably at Winchester College Chapel (1822–3). John Betton retired in 1825, but Evans continued to work under the name of the firm, assisted by his sons Charles and William, primarily making new windows in response to the growing demand for new stained glass windows.
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| East Window firm/studio: Betton & Evans 1823 including fragments from the late fourteenth century Church of St Deiniol, Worthenbury, Wrexham east wall of the chancel |
'Glass Painters 1750–1850' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 1 (1959–60), 328–9.
Sarah Brown, 'Medieval Stained Glass and the Victorian Restorer' 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, vol. 30 (2020).
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