Folio album (386 x 320 mm). Bound in mid-century century quarter brown calf, lightly rubbed at the joints, the spine gilt-titled ‘Stained Glass’, preserved in a quarter brown calf and brown cloth-covered solander box.

Paul Vincent Woodroffe (1875-1954), artist, book illustrator, book binder, and stained glass designer. Following his retirement in 1945, Woodroffe compiled several albums comprising original watercolour designs for executed and unexecuted stained glass windows spanning his career, along with photographs and printed reproductions of windows and panels. Six of these albums are now in the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum.

The present album comprises in all but a few cases, designs for ecclesiastical stained glass commissions, the remainder being heraldic commissions for domestic settings. The majority of the watercolour designs and photographs are mounted on Ingres paper or card and tipped-in. Seven further watercolour and gouache designs are preserved loose along with five photographs of executed designs, of which three are mounted as one.

1. Design for a three-light window depicting the ‘Risen Christ’ surrounded by grapes and vine tendrils (132 x 217 mm). The card mount inscribed in pencil ‘Chapel Kensal Green.’ The sheet inscribed in ink to the verso (only partially visible) ‘for Lunette, Kensal Green...’.
2. Design for a lancet window depicting the figure of Abel (226 x 78 mm). Inscribed in pencil at the foot of the card support ‘Abel - Genesis . IV. 4. - All Saints - Forest Gate’.
3. Two photographs mounted as one on card (294 x112 mm) showing a rectangular window with St. George in the upper panel, St. Thomas à Becket in the lower panel, and Saints Alban and Edmund in the central panels.
4. Photograph (253 x 94 mm) mounted on card showing a two-light window depicting figures of John the Baptist and the Good Shepherd. Running across the foot of the two light ‘Set up by the Parishioners to the Glory of God to commemorate the twenty six years pastoral care of Fr. Ralph Brindle S.J. 1876 - 1902’.
   Inscribed in ink to the verso of the mount ‘Paul Woodroffe 19 Edwardes Square Kensington. W. Photograph of window (next the Baptistery) - the Catholic Church, Prescot nr. Liverpool. N.B. The Ruddy browns in the camel skin dress of St. John the Baptist & the scarlets & purple of the dress of the Good Shepherd - & the red diamonds come far too dark here - and the varied blues alternating with the white ...’. (the rest has been cut from the bottom of the card.
5. Two photographs mounted as one to card (282 x 76 mm), showing a lancet window incorporating the figure of St. Michael.
6. Two photographs mounted as one to card (281 x 73 mm), showing a lancet memorial window incorporating the figure of St. Cecilia. ‘In memory of Mary Alexander Helenor. David and [?] Claud’.
7. Design for a three-light window and tracery lights (302 x 163 mm) depicting the figure of Christ as Saviour, standing upon a rainbow, his mantle held aloft by angels, surrounded by grapes and vine tendrils. Indistinctly inscribed in pencil [?] ‘Nr. Bath’.
8. Possibly an alternative design for no. 7, (266 x 135 mm) showing a three-light window, depicting Christ standing upon a rainbow, his arms outstretched in benediction. Three tracery windows above the main panel depicting respectively, a lame man, a leper, and a blind man.
   9/10. Two photographs (232 x 281 mm; 238 x 282 mm), showing the east and west elevations of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Edmonton, London.
9. Design (285 x 235 mm), for a twelve-light domestic stairwell window depicting the four classical elements ‘Fire, Earth, Air, Water’ at ‘Four Beeches’ Denbridge Road, Blickley designed by C.H.B. Quennell. Inscribed in white gouache to the verso of the card mount ‘Paul Woodroffe Campden Glos.’ A variant of this design was completed at the house, see below.
   12/13. Two photographs (276 x 235 mm; 281 x 238 mm) of the ‘Four Beeches’ stairwell design, as executed. The leaf on which the second photograph is mounted is inscribed in white gouache ‘ Fire. Earth. Air. Water. ‘Four Beeches, Denbridge Rd. Bickley. By C.H.B. Quennell Esq. F.R.I.B.A.’
10. Photograph (280 x 229 mm), of a fifteen-light domestic stairwell window, depicting ‘Fire, Earth, The Universe, Air, Water’. The leaf on which the photograph is mounted is inscribed in white gouache ‘House at Roehampton. S.W.G.W. Hart Builder. C.H.B. Quennell Archt.’
11. Design (301 x 179 mm) for a three-light window. The central light depicting Christ presenting the keys of Heaven to St. Peter. The left hand light depicting two angels holding an open book showing the Greek characters, Alpha and Omega. The right hand light depicting an angel holding an Ark. Inscribed at the foot of the mount ‘Not done - Calne’
12. Designs (214 x 66 mm; 215 x 68 mm) for two lancet windows depicting Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ. The latter inscribed in ink on the verso ‘Paul Woodroffe. Campden, Glos.’
13. One photograph (225 x145 mm) showing no. 16 as executed.
14. Design for a three-light window with tracery details (282 x 164 mm). The central light depicting Christ standing on a rainbow. All three lights and tracery lights with vine tendrils and grapes. At the foot of the central light the text ‘Come to Me’. The leaf faintly inscribed in pencil in the lower margin ‘Goudhurst - much damaged by bomb blast.’
15. Four designs, mounted on card (360 x 118 mm), for four lancet windows depicting Saint Helena; Saint Ethelburgh; the B[lessed] Edmund Campion; Saint Francis Borgia. Inscribed in pencil to the lower margin of the card ‘Stonyhurst’. Inscribed in ink on the verso ‘Paul Woodroffe Campden, Glos.’
16. Design (324 x 214 mm) for a three-light heraldic memorial window with tracery details, the left hand light depicting the Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ, the central depicting St. Matthew, and the right hand light depicting St. Agnes. Running across the bottom of all three lights, ‘Pray for Rev. M. Twoiney Priest of this Church. Died Wathams, 16th April, 1910. Aged 36 years. R.I.P.’. Inscribed to the verso of the card mount in white gouache.’Paul Woodroffe. Campden, Glos.’
17. Design (290 x 137 mm) for a memorial window inscribed in white gouache ‘George Lynch-Staunton. K.C.’
18. Design (284 x 77 mm) for a large lancet window, the upper panel depicting Christ Crucified, with the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John on either side. The lower panel depicting Christ at the Last Supper, with St John leaning against Christ. Inscribed in ink to the verso of the mount ‘Paul Woodroffe, Campden Glos.’ - inscribed in pencil to the same, ‘Miss Burton -Temple Sowerby - Penrith’.
19. Design (260 x 158 mm) for a three-light window with tracery details. The central light depicting Christ displaying the wounds of the Passion. The left hand light depicting two saints, the right hand light three saints. The verse, ‘They that sow in tears shall reap in joy’ (Psalm 126:5 KJV), running across the bottom of the two outer lights. Inscribed in ink on the verso of the mount ‘Paul Woodroffe, Campden, Glos.’
20. Design (368 x 217 mm), for a three-light window with tracery details. The central light depicting the Risen Christ, the left hand and right hand lights depicting the blinded soldiers at the tomb. Inscribed in ink on the verso of the mount ‘Paul Woodroffe. Campden, Glos.’ and ‘Roehampton’.
21. Design (371 x 237 mm) for a three-light window with tracery details. The central light depicting the Risen Christ and St. Thomas in the Upper Room, the left and right hand lights clear, the tracery lights filled with musical angels. Inscribed faintly in pencil to the lower margin of the card mount ‘Not carried out’. A white paper strip adhered to the upper margin of the verso of the mount, inscribed in ink ‘Paul Woodroffe, Campden, Glos’.

The remaining water colour designs and photographs loose.

1. Design (254 x 67 mm) for a lancet memorial window, the central panel depicting the Virgin and Infant Christ. The bottom panel with the words ‘To the Glory of God & in loving memory of Mary Helen Wright who died June 3 . 1940.’ Inscribed in pencil at the foot of the mount ‘Ross on Wye’, mounted on thick card.
2. Design (368 x 216 mm) for a three-light window with tracery details. The central light depicting Christ Crucified with the figure of Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross. The left hand light depicting the Virgin Mary, the right hand light depicting St. John. Inscribed on the verso of the mount in ink ‘Window A. The Crucifixion. Roehampton S.W. Paul Woodroffe. Campden Glos. Nov. 19. 1909. Jaynes Court Bisley, Nr. Stroud’.
3. Part of a larger design (111 x 43 mm) depicting St. Sebastian pierced by arrows looking heavenward.
4. Design (318 x 198 mm) for a three-light window with tracery details. The central light depicting St. Michael, the left hand light, Abraham, the right hand light, David. The verse, ‘They that sow in tears shall reap in joy’ (Psalm 126:5 KJV), runs across the bottom of all three lights.
5. Design (374 x 170 mm) for a lancet window comprised of three mandorlas; the upper mandorla depicting John the Baptist, the central one depicting the Visitation, and the lower mandorla depicting the Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ, St. Anne and the infant John the Baptist. Inscribed at the foot of the mount in pencil ‘Rawdon, Leeds’ and on the verso in ink ‘Paul Woodroffe Campden, Glos. - Rough sketch for portion of W. Window, Rawdon nr. Leeds’. This design is very similar in style to that of no. 22 and is probably part of the same scheme.
6. Design (350 x 241 mm) for a three-light memorial window with tracery details, the central light depicting St. Sebastian in the uniform of a Roman soldier, holding a spear in his right hand, and an arrow in his left, in the right hand light, St. Francis displaying the stigmata, in the left hand light, a saint in who appears to be in seventeenth-century clerical garb with his arm around a young boy. The window is installed in Saint Sylvester’s Roman Catholic Church, Elgin. In the window as completed, Saint Sebastian is shown, as is more usual, naked save for a loin cloth. Running across the bottom of the three lights is the legend ‘This window has been set up [by] and in proud and loving memory [of]: Sebastian Francis only son of his sorrowing parents: who died on April 26th MCMXVIII. Sweet Jesus have mercy on his soul.’ The verso of the card mount inscribed in pencil ‘St. Sylvestus Elgin’ and in ink ‘Paul Woodroffe Chipping Campden Glos:’ Three small pin holes to the upper margin of the card mount.
7. Photograph (230 x 102 mm) of a round arched window showing the archangel Raphael carrying Tobias’s fish. Inscribed in ink to the verso of the mount ‘Clerestory St. Michael’s Monastery. Union City. N.J.’ below which is the studio rubber ink stamp of ‘George W. Sotter Studio. Holicong, Bucks Countey, PA’.
8. Photograph (215 x 165 mm) mounted on card showing a three-light heraldic memorial window in the cloister at Downside Abbey. Inscribed in pencil to the foot of the mount ‘Downside’. Inscribed in ink to the verso of the mount ‘Cloister, Downside Abbey - Paul Woodroffe, Campden, Glos.’
9. Design for three-light memorial window, the central panel depicting Christ Crucified, the left hand panel depicting the Virgin Mary, the right hand panel depicting John the Evangelist. Across the foot of the central light, ‘In loving memory of the Rev. Samuel Garrard M.A. for 42 years Vicar of this Parish and Amelia his wife and their daughter Amelia Florence Garrard’. Inscribed in ink to the verso of the card mount ‘Paul Woodroffe Bisley, Glos.’
10. Three photographs (each measuring 143 x 80 mm) making up one two-light window, depicting in the upper panels the Annunciation, and in the lower panels the Nativity with the Shepherds. Inscribed in pencil to the verso of one of the photographs ‘Holy Name Manchester S. Transept - War Memorial’.

Stock number: 1486