THE SCOTTISH STAINED 
GLASS SYMPOSIUM



Kings Own Scottish Borderers memorial window, 
Duns Church, by Douglas Hogg 

 Please return to: 

Mrs Alison Robertson 
3 Ross Gardens 
EDINBURGH 
EH9 3BS 

The SSGS MAILING LIST includes: 

Stained glass artists, conservators, 
enthusiasts, historians and inventorists, 

The British Society of Master Glass Painters 
The Church of Scotland 
Ms Patricia Fergusson, MSP, Minister of 

Culture in the Scottish Parliament 
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 
Historic Scotland 
The National Association of Decorative and 

Fine Arts Societies in Scotland 

The National Museum Service in Scotland and 
other museums 
The Roman Catholic Church 
The Royal Commission on Ancient and 

Historic Monuments 

The Royal Incorporation of Architects in 
Scotland 
The Saltire Society 
Scottish Church Heritage Research 
The Scottish Episcopal Church 
Northlands Creative Glass, Caithness 
among many others. 

SCOTTISH STAINED GLASS SYMPOSIUM 

Hon. Secretary: 

Mrs Alison Robertson, MA, B Mus 
3 Ross Gardens, Edinburgh EH9 3BS 
email: alison.robertson@fish.co.uk 

Church of Scotland contact: 

Miss Lynn Johnson, BA 
Church Art and Architecture 
121 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4YN 
Email: ljohnson@cofscotland.org.uk 

THE SCOTTISH 
STAINED GLASS 
SYMPOSIUM



Maria Shaw memorial window, Bridge of Allan Church, by 
Linda Cannon 

Aims include: 

the exchange of ideas and information 

.. the conservation in situ of existing stained 
glass in Scotland 

the creation of one or more Repositories 
with educational and other facilities 

the recording of inventories of stained 
glass throughout Scotland and by Scottish 
artists anywhere 


SCOTTISH STAINED GLASS SYMPOSIUM (SSGS) 

. A committee open to all, begun June 2003 
. meets three times a year in Edinburgh. 
. cooperates with a wide range of individual 

people, and public and charitable bodies 
. aims to ‘rescue’ threatened glass and to 
stimulate Scotland’s interest in it 

Chaired by Professor John Hume OBE, 
convener of the Church Art and Architecture 
Committee [CARTA] of the Church of Scotland 

CONSERVATION and CHANGE 

SSGS may advise on: 
. care and maintenance of glass 
.. conservation of glass 
. significance of stained glass 
. planning applications (glass) 

REPOSITORY GROUP 

. hopes to establish one or more repository 
to house significant stained glass that 
would otherwise be lost 

. could provide educational and other 
facilities in the repository 

Chaired by Mark Bambrough (Chair of the 
Institute of Conservation in Scotland, [ICON]) 

RECORDING and INVENTORIES 

Targets include: 
. deciphering, checking, and recording 
existing hand-written inventories 
. gathering and creating comprehensive 
indices of stained glass in Scotland and of 
stained glass artists who are Scottish by 
birth or domicile 
. creating an Inventory of Inventories 

Chaired by Iain Galbraith, stained glass 
inventorist and historian 


St John’s Chapel (Oil), Aberdeen Kirk of St Nicholas 
Uniting, by Shona McInnes. Photgraph by Anne Maxwell 

SCOTTISH CHURCH HERITAGE 
RESEARCH [SCHR] (Chaired by Edwina 
Proudfoot) and SSGS hope to work in 
partnership. 

Information provided by SSGS will be 
incorporated into SCHR's Gazetteer of Places 
of Worship in Scotland, (which already holds 
limited details on some 10,500 places). 

Preliminary data can be found at 
www.scottishchurchesgazetteer.co.uk 

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 
DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETIES 
OF SCOTLAND [NADFAS] (Chaired by Sheila 
Townsend-Rose) plans to help SSGS to record 
stained glass in deteriorating or changing 
buildings. 

HOW CAN YOU HELP? 

Please complete and return this tear-off slip if 
you wish to support the work of the Scottish 
Stained Glass Symposium 

.. I would like to be on the mailing list of the 
Scottish Stained Glass Symposium 
I am willing: 

.. to record stained glass in buildings 
.. to contribute information from publications 
and archives 
.. to help with typing, or filing or archiving in 
Edinburgh 
.. I am a member of the following community 
group/local history society/church/faith group, 
and wish to assist 
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