Ballantine and Gardiner

Ballantine and Gardiner was a Scottish manufacturer of stained-glass windows, one of several names the company worked under.<Ref name=sgw>James Ballantine and Son (about 1828 - about 1925) – Stained Glass in Wales</ref>

The business was founded in Edinburgh by James Ballantine (1806–1877) and George Allan as Ballantine and Allan. They began making stained glass in the 1830s.

In 1843, they won a competition to design windows for the new Houses of Parliament, although it was subsequently changed to that of the House of Lords.<Ref name=sgw/>

James' son, Alexander (1841–1906), joined the business, which thence became known as Ballantine and Son until 1905. Herbert Gardiner joined in 1905. Alexander's son, James Ballantine III, also joined in 1905, a year before his father's death.<Ref name=sgw/>

Some of the firm's work was signed with the alternative spelling of Ballantyne.<Ref name=sgw/>

Selected notable works

The company installed the windows of the following buildings:

• Glenormiston House, Innerleithen, 1851
• Sandyford Henderson Church, Glasgow, 1857
• St Serf's Church, Dunning, c. 1900
• House of Lords, London
• Hamilton Old Parish Church - a window representing Jesus, Martha and Mary that was fitted in 1876
• Main hall of Dunoon Burgh Hall (the subject possibly being the building's architect Robert Alexander Bryden)
• St John's Kirk, Perth
• St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
• St Michael's Church, Edinburgh

References

Further reading

• Rona H. Moody, 200 Scottish Stained Glass Artists, The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xxx (2006), p. 166–7.
• Glass Painters 1750–1850, Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 1 (1959–60), p. 327.
• Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 8