Burlison and Grylls
English company
Burlison and Grylls is an English company who produced stained glass windows from 1868 onwards.
The company of Burlison and Grylls was founded in 1868 at the instigation of the architects George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. Both John Burlison (1843–1891) and Thomas John Grylls (1845–1913) had trained in the studios of Clayton and Bell.
After Thomas John Grylls' death in 1913, the firm was continued by his son Thomas Henry Grylls (1873-1953), a founder Fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. Its London premises were bombed and records destroyed in 1945 during WW2.
Examples of their work
Lady Chapel, Rochester Cathedral, Rochester, Kent
St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney, West Sussex
St Chrysostom's Church, Manchester
Church of the Holy Angels, Hoar Cross
St. Aldhelm's Church, Branksome, Poole
St Mary's Church, Eccleston, Cheshire
All Saints, Wokingham, Berkshire
St James' Church, Swarkestone, Derbyshire: east window of three lights, 1876
St Michael's Church, Camden Town, London: three double side windows in north aisle and a two double windows in the side wall of the Resurrection Chapel
St Peter's Church, Winchester: south chapel windows
St Nicholas Chapel, Little Coggeshall, east window
St Mary's Church, Portsea
St Mary's Church, Hartley Wespall, Hampshire: windows following restoration by George Gilbert Scott in 1868
St Andrew's Church, Jarrom Street, Leicester: two light window with circular light above, 1910
Radley College, Oxfordshire: a sequence of nine windows in the chapel, designed and installed between 1894 and 1917
Auckland Castle, County Durham: a series of windows in the chapel depicting the lives of the Northern Saints and of St Peter, installed in the 1880s.
Govan Old Parish Church, Govan, Glasgow
Saint Boniface Anglican Church, Antwerp
Salisbury Cathedral, memorial in North East Transept.
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