The Centre

The former city-centre parish church of St Martin-cum-Gregory has been under-used and neglected for many years. This breathtaking Grade 1 building contains important glass and uniquely fascinating graffiti from the 14th to the 18th centuries, including some of the earliest logos to be seen in stained glass, and memorials to celebrated glass-painters. The building itself is directly relevant to the Centre's purpose, and has generous, unencumbered open spaces ideal for imaginative conversion and adaptation.

Similarly, the superb ensemble of seventeenth and eighteenth century fittings will be retained to illuminate the history of a building established long before Domesday book. The Stained Glass Centre will be greatly enriched by so much inspiring evidence of a creative and spiritual past.

Within the envelope of the mediaeval building it is proposed to create a number of specialised, well-serviced and fully-accessible new spaces, elegantly transparent and carefully inter-connected to leave the dramatic, mysterious spatial qualities of the building intact and uncompromised.