Norfolk Stained Glass

Stained Glass of Sentinel House, Norwich

In the late 1980s the Insurance Industry was flying high with expectations of large future profits based upon a massive increase in sales of all types of investment policies. Rather than move to London the Norwich Union decided to develop an ultra modern investment centre in Norwich using the latest technology of networked data feeds and online interactive trading supported by an efficient clerical operation. As with the "Marble Hall" almost a century earlier there was a need to build something impressive rather than penny pinch. Hence Sentinel house was born from the boom of the 1980s.

Marble Hall Susan Bradbury signature in stained glass"The artist's main aim is to create works of art using the vibrance and sparkle of hand-made glass to enhance the specific architectural situations.

" "Fire and Life". Two sides of a lift tower at Norwich Union Offices, Norwich, filled with vast expanse (150 sqm) of glass representing sparks, flames, waves and splashes, with richly decorative acid etching.

How to display this glass on a small screen web site is an interesting challenge which I will ponder over the next few weeks. Hopefully by then I will find a way to do justice to what is a tower of stained glass that when viewed from the inside flows not like a river but as a ever changing variety of blues reflecting and filtering the light of the sky.
All Saints Westlegate St George Tombland St Julian St Michael at Plea CATHEDRAL (Anglican)
Christchurch Eaton St Giles St Lawrence St Peter Hungate Norwich Guildhall
St Andrew St Gregory St Margaret St Peter Mancroft Surrey House
St Augustine St Helen St Mary Coslany St Peter Parmentergate Sentinel House
St Barnabas St John de Sepulchre St Michael(Miles) Coslany St Simon & St Jude  
St George Colegate St John Maddermarket   St Stephen  
  St John Timberhill