Patterned Quarries and Signature
from Female Saint with Children
1933
Three-light window with a seated female saint with two children in the central light. Painted and stained quarries in the outer lights, with flowers, birds and initials.
size: 37 cm (width of each light)artist: Reginald BellChurch of St Andoenus, Mounton, Monmouthshiresouth wall of the nave
Signed with the artist's mark. Although the artist was made a partner of the stained glass firm Clayton and Bell in 1918, the window has little in common with the main output of the firm during the 1930s.
Given in memory of Walter Evill, the Chepstow architect who designed the church, his wife Elizabeth and grandson Anthony Charles Evill.Although the most immediate interpretation of the scene is that of the Virgin and Child and the young John the Baptist, only the female figure has a halo. It seems most unusual for Mary to be depicted with a halo while Christ is not. An alternative interpretation of the scene might be a rather sentimental depiction of acts of mercy, which is perhaps also the scene depicting a female saint with children in the opposite light in the north wall of the nave. (ObjectID=4044 ImageID=7517) Original File Name=Mounton_DSC9293.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 07-11-2020
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Show more subjectsMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 221.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London/Cardiff: 2000), p. 412.
Click to show suggested citation for this recordMartin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2020.
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