The Virgin Mary
Photo © Martin Crampin
1962
Window depicting a standing figure of Mary in red. The shape of the window echoes the steep pitch of the roof.
firm/studio: probably Buckfast Abbey
designer: Charles Norris
Church of St Winefride, Welshpool, Powys
(liturgical) east wall of the sanctuary
Attributed to the monks of Buckfast in The Buildings of Wales: Powys and listed among the works of Dom. Charles Norris of Buckfast Abbey in his list of windows published by the British Society of Master Glass Painters in 1966.
The same figure is included among the many works in dalle de verre (slab glass set in concrete) at Lillington (Warwickshire), which were said to have been made at Prinknash (see Aidan McRae Thompson's Flickr page). It is possible that perhaps this window perhaps was also made at Prinknash to Norris' design.
The figure is a representation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and was given by Mr. R.W. Naylor of Chirbury, whose firm was responsible for the erection of the new church.
Window depicting a standing figure of Mary in red. The shape of the window echoes the steep pitch of the roof.
firm/studio: probably Buckfast Abbey
designer: Charles Norris
Church of St Winefride, Welshpool, Powys
(liturgical) east wall of the sanctuary
Attributed to the monks of Buckfast in The Buildings of Wales: Powys and listed among the works of Dom. Charles Norris of Buckfast Abbey in his list of windows published by the British Society of Master Glass Painters in 1966.
The same figure is included among the many works in dalle de verre (slab glass set in concrete) at Lillington (Warwickshire), which were said to have been made at Prinknash (see Aidan McRae Thompson's Flickr page). It is possible that perhaps this window perhaps was also made at Prinknash to Norris' design.
The figure is a representation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and was given by Mr. R.W. Naylor of Chirbury, whose firm was responsible for the erection of the new church.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 14-09-2020
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Further reading
Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 279.
Rosemary Pauling, Models of Mary (2022).
ReferencesRichard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: 1979), p. 209.
A Directory of Stained Glass Windows (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1966), p. 57.
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2020.
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