Restoration to the Paul Woodruff stained glass windows, and others, in the Sodality Chapel

2006/7
Current Conservation architect - Cassidy +Ashton Architects

Stonyhurst Hall was built in 1592 and became a Christian college in 1794. This English Heritage Grade 1 listed building is now one of the premier Catholic Independent Boarding and Day Schools in the country and houses historic collections of Christian sacred objects and art. Over the centuries the building has been extended on a grand scale and includes many examples of particularly fine stained glass.

A number of windows in the Chapel were designed and painted in the 1920's by the artist Paul Woodruff, a former pupil of the college.

The windows were carefully documented and digitally photographed before dismantling. The matching of glass, pigment and stain, as well as recreating Woodruff's distinctive painting style, was needed to the restoration of these windows.

Stonyhurst College, Lancashire