Nathaniel Westlake

• Name — Nathaniel Westlake • Birth Name — Nathaniel Hubert John Westlake • Born — 1833 • Birthplace — Romsey, England • Place of death — Brighton, England • Other Names — N. H. J. Westlake • Occupation — Artist

Nathaniel Westlake was born in Romsey in 1833. He began to design for the firm of Lavers & Barraud, Ecclesiastical Designers, in 1858, and became a partner ten years later, making the firm Lavers, Barraud and Westlake, of which he became sole proprietor in 1880. The firm was then known as Lavers & Westlake. A leading designer of the Gothic Revival movement, his works include The Vision of Beatrice (1864), commissioned for an exhibition of stained glass held at the South Kensington Museum (renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899). In 1896, Lavers & Westlake were commissioned to reglaze two central lights in the great hall windows at Mary Datchelor Girls' School, Camberwell. The subjects were Lady Jane Grey discourses with Roger Ascham and By Industry and Perseverance, symbolising the importance of female endeavour in higher education. Other windows included On the way to Chapel, Physical Exercise, The Kindergarten and The Classroom. The windows were removed from the school in 2010 after it was converted into a series of apartments. Westlake published under the name of "Nat Hubert John Westlake". He contributed an article on mosaics to the Catholic Encyclopedia. He died in Brighton on 8 May 1921.

• Illustration — Lavers and Westlake signature from a window in Christ Church, Reading dated 1902 • Windows, Lady Chapel, and Stations of the Cross, St. Mary's Church, Ryde. • Windows at Arundel Cathedral. • Five-light window at Napier Cathedral, New Zealand, 1889-1890 (destroyed in 1931 earthquake). • Windows at St Stephen's, Gloucester Road, London, 1889-1899. • Windows at Our Lady the Immaculate Conception Church, Devizes, Wiltshire, 1909. • Windows at All Saints, Higher Walton, Lancashire. • Windows at Mary Datchelor Girls' School, Camberwell, south London. • Windows at St Lawrence's Church, Westlake (Essex) • The Gordon Window in Booloominbah • Windows and murals at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Hove. The final work before his death was the stained glass above the doorway on the southwest side. • Windows of Marble Chapel in Mount Stuart House, Isle of Bute. • Windows of chapel at St Michael's Cemetery, Rivelin, Sheffield. • Windows at All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames. • As Lavers and Westlake, windows in the college chapel at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. • As Lavers and Westlake, windows in Christ Church, Reading, Berkshire. • West Window of St Michael and All Angels, Ledbury, Herefordshire. The window depicts the First and Second Advent of Christ and was designed in 1882.

• Illustration — St Mary Magdalene, Enfield • Illustration — Ceiling, St John the Divine, Richmond • Illustration — Triptych, St John the Divine, Richmond • Illustration — St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, high altar reredos • Illustration — Painted ceiling at St Joseph's Church, Highgate • Illustration — Painted ceiling at St Joseph's Church, Highgate • Illustration — St Mary's Church, Bourne Street

There is a plaque on 20 Endell Street, which was Westlake's home during the 1880s, next to the offices of Lavers and Barraud.