Index of Contemporary Stained Glass

SS Stephen Catherine

 

This window is a composite assembly combining fragments of sixteenth-century stained glass with nineteenth-century architectural structures and extensive twentieth-century restoration. The present arrangement consists of five tall lancets surmounted by a unified canopy system reconstructed in 1852, with bases and pedestals also installed at that time.

 

The centre of Neufchâtel-en-Bray was almost completely demolished during heavy German bombing on June 7, 1940. Some 800 of the towns 1200 houses were destroyed. The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the twelfth century was severely damaged, and almost all of the stained glass windows from the 13th century shattered. These windows have now been recreated from drawings and descriptions that were made in the 1930s.

Catherine Menu - Meusnes

 

 

Although biographical information on Catherine Menu remains scarce, her surviving ecclesiastical glass situates her within the post-war renewal of sacred art in France, a movement that sought to reconcile liturgical tradition with the visual language of modernism. Menu appears to have been active from the 1970s through the 1990s, producing windows for parish churches in the Loir-et-Cher and surrounding departments.

 

 

 

 

 

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