Sulien Books – Stained Glass Windows in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tenby

This full-colour booklet was commissioned by the Friends of St Mary's and launched in September 2014. It illustrates and describes all of the stained glass extant in the church. There is Victorian glass at the church by William Wailes, Clayton & Bell and W.G. Taylor, although some of the nineteenth-century stained glass has been taken out. Early in the twentieth century two windows were added by both Karl Parsons and by the firm of C.E. Kempe & Co. The large Parsons window is a war memorial and one of the finest windows in Pembrokeshire, while the larger Kempe window is also a war memorial and among the firm's largest works in south Wales. A window of 1955 was made by John Hardman Studios, and a set of heraldic shields were added by John Baker in 1985.

Spreads from the book are shown below. Copies are available at the church, or alternatively please contact me and I will forward requests for the book to the Friends of St Mary's, who funded the publication. The book was allocated an ISBN number after the book was listed with Sulien Books in November 2014.

Martin Crampin
Stained Glass at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tenby
Sulien Books, Aberystwyth, 2014
24 pp, 37 illustrations
148 x 210 mm
ISBN 978 1 910675 01 4

£2.50

'That big things can come in small packages is certainly true of this guide...
Every church with a good collection of stained glass should have a guide like this',
Rob Scourfield, Pobl Dewi, December 2014

 

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