List of works by Edward Holmes Jewitt


A list of the known extant works of Edward Holmes Jewitt, a Pre-Raphaelite artist working in stained glass and other media. He was one of the two chief designers, along with Carl Almquist, for the Lancaster firm of Shrigley and Hunt, producers of stained glass windows and church-fittings. In recent years his work has begun to be studied and admired, though claims that he was a genius have not gone uncontested. Jewitt designed many windows for locations in the Home Counties, Yorkshire, and above all the north-west of England, and there are scattered examples elsewhere.

Works

Because of the destruction by fire of most of the company's records in 1973 many Shrigley and Hunt windows can be attributed to individual designers only on stylistic grounds, if at all. Any list of E. H. Jewitt's works is therefore necessarily incomplete. However, unless otherwise stated, all of the following Shrigley and Hunt windows have been firmly attributed to Jewitt as designer.

England

Bedfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Cheshire
Cumbria
Derbyshire
Devon
East Sussex
  • East Hoathly, parish church. East window, three lights. Usually credited to Almquist, but Waters sees Jewitt's hand in the tracery angels and one of the apostles. Subject: Christ and the Apostles.
Gloucestershire
Greater London
Greater Manchester
  • Bolton, St Mary's Church. A north window, four lights, and the aisle clerestory window above. Subject: an angel with a chalice, Jesus at Gethsemane, etc. By Almquist and Jewitt. It is described in the Buildings of England series as "Duskily Pre-Raphaelite, with some beautifully rich colours...a notable early work of theirs".
  • Hindley, All Saints Church. East window. Subject: the Ascension. Waters comments that "Jewitt's refined drawing and intricate detail is used with great effect, and his complex design retains its clarity in spite of the proliferation of images."
  • Leigh, St Mary's Church. East window, five lights. Subject: Christ and archangels. East wall of St Mary's chapel, three lights. Subject: Nunc Dimittis.
Hertfordshire
Lancashire
Leicestershire
  • Burbage, St Catherine's Church. A south window, three lights. Subject: the life of Hezekiah. Waters called this "almost surreal", and "a minor masterpiece".
  • Gilmorton, All Saints Church. East window, three lights. Subject: the Ascension.
Lincolnshire
Merseyside
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
North Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire
Suffolk
  • Ipswich, All Saints Church. Painted panels of the reredos.
West Yorkshire

Scotland

Dunbartonshire
  • Dumbarton, Town Hall. Council chamber window. Subject: secular figures. The figures are by Almquist, and the heraldry and patterns in which the figures are set are by Jewitt and others.
Midlothian