Abbott & Co. Ltd (established 1860)

Firm making stained glass and church furnishings based in Lancaster and London. Abbott & Co. were established 1860 by the plumber and glazier William Abbott (died 1904). However nothing of their stained glass is known before 1900. The business continued under his sons and grandsons, and their chief designer was I.E. Singleton, who was still at the firm in the 1950s. Among their designers from 1912 until 1919 (although interrupted by war service) was Joseph Sanders (1885–1933), who had trained at Birmingham School of Art, and the early work of the firm suggests the influence of the Arts & Crafts Movement. By the 1950s about half of all their work was for Nonconformist, and mainly Methodist, churches.

Further reading

Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 1.

Roy Albutt, Stained Glass Window Makers of Birmingham School of Art (Pershore: 2013), 89–90.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 4.

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	The Crucifixion firm/studio: Abbott & Co. Ltd 1913 Church of St Brynach, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire east wall of the chancel
	Christ the Good Shepherd firm/studio: Abbott & Co. Ltd 1913 Church of St Brynach, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire north wall of the nave, behind the pulpit
	A Wounded Soldier Meets the Risen Christ designer: Abbott & Co. Ltd about 1920 Church of St Mary, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire south wall of south aisle
	Goleuni y Byd (The Light of the World) artist (after): William Holman Hunt firm/studio: Abbott & Co. Ltd 1922 Heol Awst, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire beside the pulpit
	Atgyfodir dy Frawd Drachefn (Your Brother Will Rise Again) firm/studio: Abbott & Co. Ltd 1922 Heol Awst, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire beside the pulpit
	Christ with the Doctors and Women Teaching a Child firm/studio: Abbott & Co. Ltd 1945 Church of St John, Colwyn Bay, Conwy north wall of the north transept
	Myfi yw y Bugail Da (I am the Good Shepherd) firm/studio: Abbott & Co. Ltd about 1946 Heol Awst, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire
	Jesus Christ the Divine Healer firm/studio: Abbott & Co. Ltd 1949 Church of St Andrew, Colwyn Bay, Conwy north wall of the nave

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