Joseph Edward Nuttgens

Joseph Edward (Eddie) Nuttgens (1892 – 1982), in Germany spelt Nüttgens, was a stained glass designer in England who worked mainly on church windows.

[6] In this respect, Nuttgens was influenced by the philosophy and style of Edward Burne Jones, William Morris,[5] and other members of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

After completing his training, Nuttgens worked at Mary Lowndes and Alfred Drury's Glass House in Fulham under Karl Parsons and Martin Travers.

Sheedy subsequently set up a studio in South Weston, Oxfordshire [12] and made several windows in Holy Trinity Church, Prestwood in 1970.

When viewing its installation, Bernard Rackham (then curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum) described this East Window as an 'excellent illustration of the adaptation to modern ideas of a superb medieval art'.

[16] Some of Nuttgens post-war work, such as the south window in St Andrew's Parish Church, Soham, Cambridgeshire (1957)[17] had a bold but colourful simplicity which indicated considerable progression from his pre-war style.

Nuttgens gained an international reputation and made windows for a number of churches abroad including St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong (1958).

After his father's death, a son, Joseph Ambrose Nuttgens, continued as a stained glass designer at North Dean and at Piggott's Hill.