St Leonard detail from East Window - image from Stained Glass in Wales

St Leonard
detail from East Window

Photo © Martin Crampin

Panel from the right-hand light.

1823 including fragments from the late fourteenth century

Round-headed window made up of numerous medieval fragments. Various figures and fragments with coats of arms.

firm/studio: Betton & Evans

Church of St Deiniol, Worthenbury, Wrexham
east wall of the chancel

Some of the glass is likely to date from the late fourteenth century and is from Winchester College Chapel. The firm Betton & Evans, commissioned to restore the Tree of Jesse window at Winchester in 1822, found this impossible and made a copy of the window, retaining the original glass, which was reused here and elsewhere. Further fragments date to around 1500. Some of the glass came from Emral Hall (demolished 1775) and there are no doubt glass fragments from Betton & Evans' studio.

Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 10-06-2016

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Sir Roger de Puleston Miles: East Window

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 72-3.

Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), p. 4, pp. 95-7.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 221.

References

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 457.

User contributed comments

It wasn't 'Eton' chapel, Winchester, it was Winchester College Chapel.
Submitted by: David Ward (2016-06-09 19:41:21)
Editor's response: thanks for spotting this – I will amend the text above.

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2016.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/2088 (accessed 18 December 2024)

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