Jesse Window Conference Day
Saturday 16 May
9.30am
Coffee
10am
Welcome – Dr Paul Richards, Cathedral Administrator
10.10am History of Jesse Window Project – Jill Kerr Channer
(Medieval Glass Historian and member of the Wells
Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee)
10.30am Prof Tim Ayres (History of Art Department, York
University) ‘The Importance of the Jesse Window in
Fourteenth-century English Art and Architecture’
11.30am Coffee
12 noon Prebendary Dr Catherine Wright (Tutor in Christian History
& Spirituality: Ridley Hall, Cambridge) ‘The Jesse Window:
Some Theological Perspectives’
1pm
Lunch
2.15pm
Steve Clare (Stained Glass Conservator – Holy Well Glass,
Wells) ‘Resisting Restoration - The conservation of The Jesse
Tree Window at Wells’
3.45pm
Concluding reflections and thanks – The Chancellor,
The Revd Canon Andrew Featherstone
Tea
4pm