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The Founder and Architects of the Church

  The Founder and Architects of the Church

Photo © Martin Crampin

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1938

Two-light window with four standing figures: Wihenoc, the founder of the Priory; Geoffrey of Monmouth; and the architects Francis Smith of Warwick and George Edmund Street.


artist: Christopher Charles Powell

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Monmouth, Monmouthshire
south wall of the south aisle

To the design of the Revd Basil F.L. Clarke, curate of the church and architectural historian.

Inscription: 'In memory of one who served in the Great War.'



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011

 


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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 224-5.

References

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London/Cardiff: 2000), p. 397.

A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1952), p. 71.


 

Click to show suggested citation for this record
Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/2206 (accessed 27 December 2024)


 

  The Founder and Architects of the Church

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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