Female Saint with Children

  Female Saint with Children

Photo © Martin Crampin

larger image

1933
Three-light window with a seated female saint with two children in the central light. Painted and stained quarries in the outer lights, with flowers, birds and initials.

technique: stained glass
size: 37 cm (width of each light)
artist: Reginald Bell

Church of St Andoenus, Mounton, Monmouthshire
south wall of the nave

Signed with the artist's mark. Although the artist was made a partner of the stained glass firm Clayton and Bell in 1918, the window has little in common with the main output of the firm during the 1930s.

Given in memory of Walter Evill, the Chepstow architect who designed the church, his wife Elizabeth and grandson Anthony Charles Evill.


Although the most immediate interpretation of the scene is that of the Virgin and Child and the young John the Baptist, only the female figure has a halo. It seems most unusual for Mary to be depicted with a halo while Christ is not. An alternative interpretation of the scene might be a rather sentimental depiction of acts of mercy, which is perhaps also the scene depicting a female saint with children in the opposite light in the north wall of the nave.



 

For other views of this work click on the image(s) below:

Female Saint with Children

This artwork is indexed under the following main subject(s):
for other works containing these subjects please click on the links.

Show more subjects

Click here for other artworks at this site
Click here for other works connected to Reginald Bell

Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 221.

References

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London/Cardiff: 2000), p. 412.




View this object on the Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue


  Female Saint with Children

Photo © Martin Crampin


Arts & Humanities Research Council - project sponsorsNational Library of Wales - project partnerUniversity of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies - project partnerUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David - project organiser

This database and its contents are copyright © 2008-2024 by University of Wales Trinity Saint David, unless otherwise noted. Copyright information

Database, software and website development by Technoleg Taliesin Cyf. © 2008-2024