Designer of stained glass windows, church furnishings and metalwork, born at Turnham Green, London. He trained at Westminster School of Art, subsequently working with Charles Eamer Kempe and Herbert Bryans before setting up his own studio in East Grinstead. One of his earliest commissions was for the stained glass in Woolwich Town Hall (1904). Examples of his work may be found throughout the United Kingdom, in Denmark and in South Africa (for an extensive list of Webb’s works, see Wikipedia). His window designs can be identified by a spider’s web with his initials, usually in the bottom right-hand corner. He also designed the Village Sign for Mayfield, East Sussex, which was placed second in the 1920 Daily Mail Village Signs Competition. He was the nephew of the architect Sir Aston Webb and brother of Christopher Webb, also a stained glass artist. The Webb family has continued the tradition of arts and crafts as stonemasons, ecclesiastical silversmiths, and letter designers and carvers.
Bibliography: East Grinstead Society Bulletin, 19 May 1976, p. 9: ‘Geoffrey Webb, Master Glass Painter’; Felbridge & District History Group: Wartime memories – ‘New Stained Glass Window for St John’s’; J. Seddon et al, Public Sculpture of Sussex, Liverpool, 2014, p. 82; Wikipedia: ‘Geoffrey Webb (artist)’; Wikipedia: ‘List of Works by Geoffrey Webb’.
Jill Seddon, Peter Seddon and Anthony McIntosh, 2014; revised, Terry Cavanagh, March 2025