There is early Morris and Co glass at Cragside (1873) notably in the library bay window, designed by all three of Morris's artist friends, and a gorgeous display in the church at Brampton, where all the glass is by the firm, mostly designed by Burne-Jones. The latter described his rich and deeply coloured E. window of 1880 as a 'capo d'opera of conception' and charged Morris £200!
Christ Church, Sunderland has ten splendid scenes in the East window, with the sermon on the mount designed by Rossetti, Christ blessing the children by Ford Madox Brown, and the rest by Burne-Jones and Morris, the latter designing the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, the Last Supper and the two men in white. The scenes are of a quite un-Victorian clarity, as Pevsner says, with a good deal of brown and red. The fine West window at St Oswald's in Durham is also early Morris and Co. (1864-66) recommended, as at Sunderland, by the Durham architect E.R. Robson. There are six small square panels by Madox Brown and angels by Morris.
At Roker is St Andrew's church by E.S. Prior. Of it Sir Nikolaus Pevsner writes: 'One of the architecturally most interesting and successful churches of its date in England... All the furnishings are worth considering too. The reredos is a Burne-Jones tapestry woven by Morris and Co., the chancel carpet a Morris design, the altar cross and candlesticks of polished wrought iron are exquisite works of Ernest Gimson, who also designed the lectern, wood inlaid with ebony chevron and mother-of-pearl and slver foliage, the dedication plates inside and foundation stones outside are early works of Eric Gill...'
St. Luke's church in Wallsend. [Pevsner]: Stained glass of 1922, of quite exceptionally high quality... a job of a far deeper glow of colour and a far more violent expression than any by other artists of that date anywhere else in England.' Actually the glass, which depicts the crucifixion, is not by Evie Hone, as Pevsner thought, but by another Irish lady, Wilhelmina Geddes (1888-1955). A charming St Cecilia window by Evie Hone, who studied for a while with Geddes, can be seen at Lanercost Priory.