John Baker (stained glass artist)

John 'Jack' Baker (1916-2007) was a British stained-glass artist, teacher, conservator and author.

He was a student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the late 1930s, where he was a contemporary of Monica Walker and the artist, illustrator and children's author Hilary Stebbing, whom he married in 1946.

[1] He worked under James Hogan at the Whitefriars Glass before joining Samuel Caldwell junior at Canterbury Cathedral in 1948 to help reinstate the medieval glass removed for safekeeping during the Second World War.

[1] Baker taught stained glass at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1951,[2] where in 1953-54 he ran the stained glass department with Tom Fair,[3] and his pupils included Robert Sowers and Margaret Traherne.

[6] From 1960 to 1965, Baker created a number of dalle de verre windows in churches and chapels, setting slab glass in concrete or resin: Our Lady, St Mary of Walsingham, London Colney (1960); St George, Britwell (1964); Holy Cross Church, Gleadless Valley (1964); St Michaels Convent, Finchley (1965).