Animal head
detail from St Catherine of Alexandria
about 1461-1483
Three-light window with upper part of the saint and her wheel set into the upper central light. A black (horned?) animal head is set in a small roundel above.
Church of St Stephen, Old Radnor, Powyseast wall of the vestry
The use of the white rose en soleil and (in the apex), a badge of Edward IV dates the window to his reign. (ObjectID=2352 ImageID=7320) Original File Name=OldRadnor_DSC6097.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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Click here for other works at this siteFurther readingMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 31.
Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: 1979), p. 264.
Peter Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales: Medieval Vision (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), p. 213.
Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), pp. 5, 78.
ReferencesPainton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 227.
Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 389.
Jane Cartwright, Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008), p. 153.
Click to show suggested citation for this recordMartin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/2352 (accessed 6 September 2025)
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