CONSERVATION
I hold a Master of Arts in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management from the University of York, completed between 2014 and 2016, and am fully qualified as a stained-glass conservator.
I undertook additional training at studios in Ghent, Belgium, and at Canterbury Cathedral, where I worked on various windows from churches and domestic settings.
In addition to my studies and personal projects, I am employed as the resident stained-glass conservator at the Grade 1 listed Rochdale Town Hall, where I also run various stained glass workshops.
Please do contact me if you have any questions or if you have any stained glass that requires conservation.
RESEARCH
Publications
2024
‘Arms and the Town’ Veronica Smith on the glories of the stained glass and heraldry at Rochdale Town Hall. The Victorian Society | The Victorian Magazine
2020
‘Stained Glass and the Victorian Town: Rochdale Library, Museum, and Art Gallery’ in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.
2017
‘George Wragge’s Manchester: a consideration of Arts and Crafts stained glass in secular contexts’ in The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 – the Present, No. 41 (2017), pp. 140-159. Available on JSTOR
2013
‘Understanded of the people’: The Whall Windows in the Parish Church of Saint Leonard, Middleton’ in The Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XXXVII (2013), pp. 65-77.
Conferences and Talks
2020
Sport and art in this podcast brought to you by the British Society of Sport History in association with the Institute of Historical Research with Geoff talking to Veronica Smith of the University of York. Geoff talks to Veronica about the stained glass in the beautiful Victoria Baths in Manchester. Those of us of a certain age will remember the baths featuring in the BBC’s tv show ‘Restoration’ in the 1990’s. Veronica’s research looks at the gender and class hierarchies embodied in the glasswork and puts them into context of wider Edwardian society. There’s also the time to talk about the hard slog of researching stained glass in pubs!
2019
BSSH Conference, Liverpool.
Sport, Masculinity and Class: Stained glass at Victoria Baths, Manchester
2017
Lancashire Archives. George Wragge’s Manchester.
