Anglo-Saxon church-builder, St Cuthman or Cuthmann, embraces his ageing, paralysed mother. Square detail of stained glass window, created in the 1920s, in the Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin at Shipley, West Sussex, England. The glass, in late Arts and Crafts or Gothic Revival style, was designed by Florence Camm, co-director of a respected family firm of West Midlands glassmakers founded by her father.
Shipley, West Sussex, England, UK: Anglo-Saxon beggar saint Cuthman or Cuthmann embraces his ageing, paralysed mother in this square detail of 1920s memorial stained glass designed and made by Florence Camm, co-director of a respected family firm of West Midlands glassmakers, for the Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin. The south aisle window, in late Arts and Crafts or Gothic Revival style, commemorates Etheldreda, Lady Burrell (1853-1922), who undertook the extensive restoration of St Mary's, a medieval church once owned by the Roman Catholic Knights Templar military order. Cuthman was a shepherd, hermit and church-builder who is said to have built a wooden cart to carry his mother when they were forced to beg from door to door. When the rope he used to pull the cart broke, he took it as a sign from God to build a church in that place - now St Andrew's Church in the nearby town of Steyning. Florence Camm (1874-1960) was the daughter of Thomas William Camm (1839-1912), who established himself as a glassmaker at Smethwick around 1865. By the 1920s, she was running the business with her brother, Walter Herbert Camm (1881-1967). They both trained at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art and Florence became the dominant artist in the business, designing glass on her own account and often painting it herself.
Size: 2823px × 2823px
Location: Shipley, West Sussex, England, UK.
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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