Stained Glass of Sentinel House Norwich Union

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.

 

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All Saints Westlegate St. Giles St. Lawrence St. Peter Hungate RC Cathedral Denton
St. Andrew St. Gregory St. Margaret St. Peter Mancroft Norwich Secular East Harling Holy Trinity
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St. Clement St. James Pockthorpe St. Martin at Palace St. Saviour Guildhall Ketteringham Country Houses
St. Edmund Fishergate St. John de Sepulchre St. Mary Coslany St. Simon & St. Jude Surrey House Mulbarton Blickling
St. Etheldreda St. John Maddermarket St. Mary the Less St. Stephen Saxlingham Felbrigg
St. George Colegate St. John Timberhill St. Michael Coslany St. Swithin Shelton Holkham