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St Mary Magdalene, St Peter and St Stephen
from Figures from the Bible and Saints

  St Mary Magdalene, St Peter and St Stephen    from    Figures from the Bible and Saints

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1883

The sanctuary windows comprise five three-light windows with standing figures. The figures, from left to right, are Noah, Abraham with Isaac, Moses, Isaiah, David, John the Baptist, Christ flanked by Mary and John, Mary Magdalene, Peter, Stephen, and the Welsh saints Llure, David and Afan. The windows also include family heraldry and inscriptions below, and the instruments of the Passion above. Mary Magdalene stands holding a jar of ointment, while Peter and Stephen both hold books, as well as keys (Peter) and martyrs' palm (Stephen). Family heraldry below, with inscription surrounded by vine decoration, and shields above with the flagellum, dice and seamless garment.

size: 35 cm (width of each light)
firm/studio: C.E. Kempe

Church of All Saints, Newbridge-on-Wye
south wall of the sanctuary apse (window number: sII)

The uppermost light has a roundel with three wheatsheaves, a variant of the mark of the artist C.E. Kempe.


 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 30-05-2018

 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 134.

Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 378.

Adrian Barlow, Espying Heaven: The Stained Glass of Charles Eamer Kempe and his Artists (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2019), pp. 18, 20–1.

Adrian Barlow, Kempe: The Life, Art and Legacy of Charles Eamer Kempe (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2018), pp. 70, 76–80.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2018.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/4954 (accessed 28 March 2024)



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