St George
detail from The Four Evangelists with Saints and Angels

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1921 Set of four two-light windows with standing figures beneath roundels depicting angels. Figures of saints from left to right: Agnes, George, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Maurice and Cecilia. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Samuel Evans & Co. Church of St Matthew, Newport east wall of the sanctuary Given in memory of the members of the congregation who fought in the First World War. The faculty for the window is dated January 1921. Cartoons of at least some of these eight figures survive at Sandwell Community History and Archive Services, Smethwick.  (ObjectID=3932 ImageID=7116) Original File Name=MaindeeStMatthew_MC_DSC9368.jpg

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• angels 
• the (negro-)warrior Maurice (Mauritius) of Agaunum, commander of the Theban Legion, and martyr; 
• the four evangelists together (author portraits) 
• the virgin martyr Agnes of Rome; possible attributes: lamb, ring 
• the virgin martyr Cecilia of Rome 
• the warrior martyr George (Georgius) 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 207.

Martin Crampin, Samuel Evans & Co windows in Maindee, Newport (2017).

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London/Cardiff: 2000), p. 432.

Photo © Martin Crampin