Ballantine and Gardiner

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Ballantine and Gardiner
Stained glass by Bannantyne & Son, St Serfs, Dunning.jpg
The company's work on display at St Serf's Church, Dunning, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Known forstained glass

Ballantine and Gardiner was a Scottish manufacturer of stained-glass windows, one of several names the company worked under.[1]

The business was founded in Edinburgh by James Ballantine (1806–1877) and George Allan as Ballantine and Allan. They began making stained glass in the 1830s.

In 1843, they won a competition to design windows for the new Houses of Parliament, although it was subsequently changed to that of the House of Lords.[1][2]

James' son, Alexander (1841–1906), joined the business, which thence became known as Ballantine and Son until 1905. Herbert Gardiner joined in 1905. Alexander's son, James Ballantine III, also joined in 1905, a year before his father's death.[1]

Some of the firm's work was signed with the alternative spelling of Ballantyne.[1]

Selected notable works[]

The company installed the windows of the following buildings:

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d James Ballantine and Son (about 1828 - about 1925) – Stained Glass in Wales
  2. ^ Ballantine & Allan, stained glass manufacturers – The National Archives
  3. ^ Sandyford Henderson Church – Scotland's Churches Trust
  4. ^ Dunoon Burgh Hall Chronicles, issue 1
  5. ^ Stained Glass – Dunoon Burgh Hall
  6. ^ Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland, Francis Hindes Groome (1901)

Further reading[]

  • Rona H. Moody, 200 Scottish Stained Glass Artists, The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xxx (2006), p. 166–7.
  • Glass Painters 1750–1850, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 1 (1959–60), p. 327.
  • Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 8
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