
John Hayward (1929–2007)
Stained glass artist who studied as a painter at St Martin’s School of Art, 1946–9. He learned stained glass with a firm in Westminster, then went freelance in 1961 with a large commission for east and west windows at St Mary Le Bow. After this Hayward “was continuously busy mostly with glass, but some furniture and metalwork, all commissioned work in churches and other public places.” He was a fellow of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. His work included east windows, St Michael, Paternoster Royal (Dick Whittington’s church); east window in St Peter’s, Oxford; nave windows, Grantham Parish Church; and nearly all windows in Dunstable Priory (a booklet on the glass there features Hayward’s work); and the east window in Walsingham Church.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)