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Mary Lowndes (1857-1929)


Influential stained glass artist and co-founder, with Alfred Drury (1868-1940), of the Glass House in London. The daughter of the vicar of St Mary's Church, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, Mary Lowndes trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She was also a pupil of Henry Holiday and designed for James Powell & Sons from 1887–92. Her early windows were made by Britten & Gilson before she established the studio and workshop Lowndes & Drury with Alfred Drury in 1897. Their 'Glass House' in Fulham was established in 1906 and became a hub for artists making stained glass according to Arts & Crafts methods.


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  Christ the Good Shepherd Christ the Good Shepherd
artist: Mary Lowndes
after 1903
Nantgwyllt Chapel of Ease, Garreg-ddu, Powys
east window (sanctuary apse)
  St Melangell St Melangell
artist: Mary Lowndes
1905
Church of St Tydecho, Cemmaes, Powys
south wall of the nave
  The Good Wife The Good Wife
artist: Mary Lowndes
patron: Londonderry (family)
1908
Church of St Peter, Machynlleth, Powys
north wall
  Virgin and Child with St Cecilia and St Margaret Virgin and Child with St Cecilia and St Margaret
artist: Mary Lowndes
1917
Church of St Margaret, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff
north wall of the north transept
  St John the Evangelist and the Virgin Mary St John the Evangelist and the Virgin Mary
artist: Mary Lowndes
about 1920
Church of the Holy Trinity, Aberaeron, Ceredigion
south wall of the sanctuary
  An Angel Presenting a Fallen Soldier to the Risen Christ An Angel Presenting a Fallen Soldier to the Risen Christ
Designer: Mary Lowndes
1920
Church of St Mary, Spittal, Pembrokeshire
east wall of the chancel
  St Cecilia and St Luke St Cecilia and St Luke
artist: Mary Lowndes
1925
Church of the Holy Trinity, Aberaeron, Ceredigion
south wall of the nave
Further reading

Peter Cormack, Arts and Crafts Stained Glass (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 85–7, 95–6, 252–3 and further references.

Nancy Armstrong, 'Lowndes, Mary (1856–1929)' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Ann O'Donoghue, 'Mary Lowndes - A Brief Overview of Her Life and Work' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xxiv (2000), 38–52.

Joyce Little, Stained Glass Marks and Monograms (London: National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, 2002), p. 81.

Alan Brooks and Peter Cormack, 'The Artists of the Glass House' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xli (2017), 34.

Barrie Armstrong and Wendy Armstrong, The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England: A Handbook (Wetherby: Oblong, 2005), p. 243.

Peter Cormack, Women Stained Glass Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement (London: London Borough of Waltham Forest, 1985), pp. 5–6.





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