St George
detail from St Oswald and St George
Photo © Martin Crampin
1934
Two-light window with standing figures. Both are depicted as military figures, holding banners with the red cross. Oswald is shown crowned, with a large hunting horn. George, in the right-hand light, stands holding a sword piercing the dragon at his feet.
artist: Horace Wilkinson
Cathedral Church of St John Evangelist, Brecon, Powys
south wall near the south transept chapel
Signed and dated by the artist.
Text (lower left-hand light): 'Be strong and play the man'. Given in memory of Edward Latham Bevan by the members of the Church of England Men's Society. He was the first bishop of Swansea and Brecon (1923–34) and chairman of the CEMS 1924–34.
The imagery borrows from the many First World War memorials of the previous decade.
Two-light window with standing figures. Both are depicted as military figures, holding banners with the red cross. Oswald is shown crowned, with a large hunting horn. George, in the right-hand light, stands holding a sword piercing the dragon at his feet.
artist: Horace Wilkinson
Cathedral Church of St John Evangelist, Brecon, Powys
south wall near the south transept chapel
Signed and dated by the artist.
Text (lower left-hand light): 'Be strong and play the man'. Given in memory of Edward Latham Bevan by the members of the Church of England Men's Society. He was the first bishop of Swansea and Brecon (1923–34) and chairman of the CEMS 1924–34.
The imagery borrows from the many First World War memorials of the previous decade.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 25-09-2024
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A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1939), p. 92.
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2024.
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