Fig. 1. Detail of tracery panel from window sVII, Christ Church, Oxford, taken from CVMA photo archive.
The British arm of the international stained glass research project, the Corpus Vitrearum, recently celebrated being awarded charitable status. As a registered charity, the CVMA (GB) will more easily and widely by recognised as existing for social benefit, and will now have access to certain sources of grant funding open only to organisations with charitable status, allowing us to fund raise more effectively.