Table of Contents

Illustrations
Foreword and Acknowledgements
Prologue
The Wheatsheaf and the Pelican

Part One: Life
Chapter 1 Sussex - School - Oxford
Chapter 2 Starting Out: Kempe and G.F. Bodley
Chapter 3 The Kempe Studio (i): Wyndham Hope Hughes
Chapter 4 The Kempe Studio (ii): John Carter
Chapter 5 The Kempe Studio (iii): John William Lisle

Part Two: Art
Chapter 6 Kempe Glass in Close-up: Friends, Patrons, Virtues

Part Three: Legacy
Chapter 7 Kempe and Old Place
Chapter 8 Kempe and Walter Tower
Chapter 9 Kempe's Reputation

Glossary
Notes and References
Gazetteer
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Adrian Barlow writes and lectures on literature, architecture and stained glass. A Fellow and former President of the English Association, his books include World and Time: Teaching Literature in Context and Extramural: Literature and Lifelong Learning (Lutterworth Press).

Reviews

"Forget what you knew, or thought you knew, about Kempe! Adrian Barlow's reexamination of the life, art and work of Charles Eamer Kempe and his circle is a masterful exercise in biography and art history."
Dr Jasmine Allen, Curator, The Stained Glass Museum, Ely

"This is a timely and long-awaited study of the work of C.E. Kempe and his successor company, not only in stained glass but within a wider context of later 19th and early 20th century design and the Arts and Crafts movement. Its illustrations draw attention to the consistently high quality of the firm's work and the informative text should put its reputation where it properly belongs, equal to and sometimes even above its contemporary rivals."
Dr Donald Buttress, LVO, OBE, Surveyor Emeritus of Westminster Abbey

'Adrian Barlow's book is a scholarly biography of the outstanding and prolific stained-glass artist Charles Kempe.'
Goodall, John, Country Life, pg92, 9th January 2019

'One comes away with a sense of the shape of Kempe's life, an interesting set of insights into his working methods, and, above all, the sense that he's a considerable artist.' 'Adrian Barlow's Kempe will send people back to the work, with much more background knowledge, with a clearer understanding of how his big Victorian studio worked, and, above all, with new enthusiasm and new eyes.'
- Phillip Wilk, 'Into the Light', English Buildings, 29 November 2018

"This book is invaluable for the way in which it adds significantly to our understanding of the man, the studio, the works and the era"
- Jonathan Evens, Artway.eu, http://www.artway.eu/content.php?id=2704&lang=en&action=sho

"excellent new book"
-Michael Hall, Apollo, December 2018, pp.24-25

"Drawing on sustained research, much of it using material only recently rediscovered, this is a splendid account of Kempe and his world"
-William Whyte, Church Times, 17 January 2019, https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/18january/books-arts/book-reviews/kempe-the-life-art-andlegacy-of-charles-eamer-kempe-adrian-barlo

Balow's presentation of the life, art, and influence of Kempe is compelling.
Reading Religion, 2020

"Gives and expert account of the external circumstances of Kempe's career"
Nicholas Shrimpton, Modern Believing, pp. 293-295, July 2020

excellent ... Adrian barlow shows an urgency and vitality to Charles Eamer Kempe's life and career
Graham McLaren, Ecclesiology Today vol. 58, June 2020

Meticulously-researched and very readable biography of C.E. Kempe.
Michael Kerney, The Journal of Stained Glass, Volume XLII,2018