
Kempe Studio, The Four Rivers of Paradise (1883) Baptistry, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Monmouth.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Kempe Studio, detail of The Four Rivers of Paradise (1883) Baptistry, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Monmouth.
Photo: Peter Hildebrand

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The Four Rivers window is one of the earliest stained glass windows in the church, predating even the east window. With the exception of a window by Christopher Charles Powell of 1938, all of the stained glass at the church was made by Kempe Studio, with some made after the death of C. E. Kempe, when his firm was under the direction of Walter Tower. The church is therefore an excellent place to see a range of Kempe windows made over a period of four decades.
Further Reading:
Adrian Barlow, Espying Heaven: The Stained Glass of Charles Eamer Kempe and his Artists (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2019)
Stained Glass in Wales – Church of St Mary the Virgin, Monmouth