{"id":805004,"date":"2026-10-17T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805004\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T00:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:08:09","slug":"hidden-stained-glass-masterpieces-go-on-display-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/805004\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden stained-glass masterpieces go on display in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in the south side of Glasgow in 1883, he studied at Glasgow School of Art before becoming an apprentice at the prestigious Adam Studio. In 1910, after the death of the founder Stephen Adam Senior, he took over the studio himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was then able to express himself and become a prominent designer,&#8221; said Robertson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For the next few years, he was responsible for as many as 40 windows across Scotland, including the ones here in the Lansdowne Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The McCowan window was installed in 1914 and marks the end of Webster&#8217;s short but prolific career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A year later, while serving with the Gordon Highlanders in Ypres, he was seriously injured and died shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robertson continued: &#8220;This incredible talent was snuffed out at the age of 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And because a church doesn&#8217;t tend to be open to the public to the same extent, few people have been able to see them, so we&#8217;re now finally revealing the talent of Alf Webster.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Born in the south side of Glasgow in 1883, he studied at Glasgow School of Art before becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-805004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}