![]() ![]() Given the prevalence of stained glass in such settings it is surprising that studies of nineteenth-century stained glass have tended to gloss over the development of secular stained glass. ![]() Stained glass manufacturers responded to this demand by producing a range of designs at varying costs for ornamental and decorative glazing and stained glass windows, which together with stained glass substitutes, were used to glaze and decorate windows in a variety of domestic contexts, from the urban terraced house to the country home. Previously only available to the wealthy aristocratic elite, in this era glass became more affordable and stained glass was sought for a variety of secular contexts including the middle-class home. The home and its decoration was a focal point for the Victorian middle classes who sought to create an “abode of comfort, elegance, and happiness”, in an increasingly industrialised, congested and frenetic urban environment. ![]()
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