St Mary Magdalene, St Peter and St Stephen
from Figures from the Bible and Saints

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1883 The sanctuary windows comprise five three-light windows with standing figures. The figures, from left to right, are Noah, Abraham with Isaac, Moses, Isaiah, David, John the Baptist, Christ flanked by Mary and John, Mary Magdalene, Peter, Stephen, and the Welsh saints Llure, David and Afan. The windows also include family heraldry and inscriptions below, and the instruments of the Passion above. Mary Magdalene stands holding a jar of ointment, while Peter and Stephen both hold books, as well as keys (Peter) and martyrs' palm (Stephen). Family heraldry below, with inscription surrounded by vine decoration, and shields above with the flagellum, dice and seamless garment. technique: stained glass size: 35 cm (width of each light) firm/studio: C.E. Kempe cartoonist: Wyndham Hope Hughes designer: John Carter Church of All Saints, Newbridge-on-Wye south wall of the sanctuary apse The uppermost light has a roundel with three wheatsheaves, a variant of the mark of the artist C.E. Kempe.  (ObjectID=4954 ImageID=9568) Original File Name=Newbridge-on-Wye_DSC7511A.jpg

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• St Mary Magdalene 
• St Peter, apostle and first bishop of Rome 
• St Stephen, deacon and (proto)martyr 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 134.

Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 378.

Adrian Barlow, Espying Heaven: The Stained Glass of Charles Eamer Kempe and his Artists (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2019), pp. 18, 20–1.

Adrian Barlow, Kempe: The Life, Art and Legacy of Charles Eamer Kempe (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2018), pp. 70, 76–80.

Photo © Martin Crampin