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

Stained Glass Windows in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tenby (2014) 24 pp.

This full-colour booklet was commissioned by the Friends of St Mary's and launched in September 2014. 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. These windows are all illustrated and described in the booklet.

Details of the memorial window by Karl Parsons, 1917, used (left) on the book's cover, and inside. p. 15

I wrote and designed the booklet, using my own photography, and the booklet was printed by the Welsh press Y Lolfa in Talybont. It was retrospectively given an ISBN number and listed with Sulien Books. The guide is available from the church for £2.50, or alternatively contact me and I will forward requests for copies to the Friends of St Mary's.

'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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