The Ecclesiologist - 1853 Author:Cambridge Camden Society Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: thanks of the society were given to Mr. Dyce, for: his land services as honorary secretary to the society. VI. On the proposal of Mr. Tennant, seconded by Mr.... more » Dyce, the thanks of the society were voted to Mr. Helmore, for his indefatigable exertions as director of the choir of the society during its more recent meetings. VII. The thanks of the society were voted to Mr. Cockayne, for his services as treasurer of the society since 1846. THE MUNICH GLASS IN KILNDOWN CHURCH. Abbildungen der Glasgemalde in der Salvatorkirche zu Kilndown in der Grafschaft Kent. Copies of Paintings on Glass in Christchurch, Kiln- down, in the County of Kent. Executed in the Royal Establishment for Painting on Glass, Munich, by order of Alexander J. Beresford Hope, Esq., M.P. Published by Franz Eggert, Painter on Glass Munich. Small folio. Under the above title there have been published, at Munich, a series, of exquisitely drawn and coloured engravings of the fourteen full-length figures of saints, which were executed some years ago at the Royal. Glass-Pain ting Works at Munich, for the church of Christchurch,, Kilndown. The Kilndown glass—which must be known to many of our readers—is (we believe) the only specimen of the Munich school in this country; and, more than that, we believe it to be as good a specimen of that school as is to be seen anywhere. Some little disappointment was felt, we have understood, at Munich, because it was rightly judged that these windows, being destined for a church, were not at their first landing in England (at the commencement of 3 841), exhibited in London. It will be remembered that the Munich school of glass painting was not represented at all in the Crystal Palace; and the only opportunity untravelled Englishmen have of seeing its peculiarities, is by a...« less