Stained glass job of a lifetime (Uk)

A STAINED glass conservation company scored the job of a lifetime when it was commissioned to restore church windows in Barbados. The father and son team behind The Glasshouse Studio in Horsham spent a month working on site at St George Church.They landed the work when a team from the Caribbean Island was visiting the UK looking for restorers.

Managing director Clifford Durrant, 55, said: “It was a tremendous job - a wonderful opportunity.  “We restore stained glass windows right across Sussex and in royal palaces but this was the first one in a hot country.  “It was a beautiful church even though the island is almost third world.”

Clifford and his son Simon, 30, visited the town of St George at the beginning of February to begin the project. The logistics of flying the early 20th century glass back to England would have been a costly and risky operation.  So the New Street firm transported its business to Barbados.

And Virgin Atlantic even paid for the cost of shipping the materials and tools to the tropical island.
However the conditions on Barbados made for a challenging restoration process.

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