STAINED GLASS DANLOCAL GLASS
Stained glass
in Bolton.
Bolton has more stained-glass history than you might expect. This is a growing collection of artists, windows and places worth looking up — with evidence linked wherever possible.
DAISY HILL
Morris & Co. and Edith Norris — under one roof.
St James the Great at Daisy Hill contains an east window by Morris & Co., with figures designed by Edward Burne-Jones. The church also contains a north-transept window by Bolton stained-glass and mosaic artist Edith Norris. That makes it a particularly lovely local stop: nationally significant Arts & Crafts glass and the work of a Bolton artist in the same building.
A BOLTON ARTIST
Edith Norris.
Edith Norris was a Bolton stained-glass and mosaic artist. Surviving local records and church guides document her work, including the window at St James the Great, Daisy Hill.
A chance meeting that stuck.
I met Edith Norris briefly when I was an art student in Bolton. She spotted a group of us carrying portfolios and stopped to talk to us about her career and achievements in stained glass. It was only a chance encounter, but it stayed with me — and many years later I would find myself teaching stained glass in Bolton too.
The personal account above is my own recollection; the historical details are linked separately.
WALMSLEY
Morris & Co. at Christ Church.
Historic England’s listing for Christ Church, Walmsley records two Morris & Co. windows designed by Edward Burne-Jones, dated 1872 and 1895. It’s another strong local connection to one of the most important names in Victorian stained glass.
MORE TO FIND
This page will grow.
There are more Bolton windows, studios and stories worth documenting. I’d rather add them slowly with decent sources than turn local memory into fact by accident. If something belongs here, it gets checked first.