11 Facts About William Wailes

William Wailes was the proprietor of one of England's largest and most prolific stained glass workshops.

William Wailes was born and grew up in Newcastle on Tyne, England's centre of domestic glass and bottle manufacturing.

William Wailes made and fired small decorative enamels which were sold in his shop.

Regardless of this, William Wailes made a name for himself through the provision of windows for local churches.

William Wailes was one of the twenty-five stained glass manufacturers that exhibited in the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851.

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In 1860 William Wailes bought the Saltwell Estate at Gateshead and set about improving it, building himself a decorative mansion and landscaping the grounds.

However William Wailes continued to reside in his home until his death in 1881.

William Wailes was painted, next to a window exemplifying his work, by John Oliphant.

William Wailes' glass is often a little paler and more brightly coloured than many English workshops of the same date, being rather more like glass from Germany or Limoges.

William Wailes' west window at Gloucester is a stupendous achievement, and not just because of the technicalities involved in glazing such a vast area.

The window rises in three stages, the first and the third being approximately half as tall as the middle one, the whole being surmounted by many smaller vertical tracery lights, which William Wailes predictably filled with singing angels neatly arranged in robes of violet, bright red and arsenic green.