The original stained glass inside
St. Mary's Home...
which is the local castle...
has an interesting history!
To learn more about the Lindenwold Castle,
see this post.
The Victorian ladies
are featured in the stained glass windows
adorning the dining room.
The 'official' statement
is that the ladies were copied off of dinner plates
the Richard V. Mattison
had imported.
But the guide
had a much more interesting
theory.
He believed one photo to be
the first wife of Richard V. Mattison
and the others to be his mistresses!
In the absence of dinner plates as proof
I am believing the second theory!
haha!
St. Mary's acquired the castle and has since added some
additional stained glass.
But nothing as interesting
as Richard's ladies.
12 comments:
Wonderful stories for wonderful windows, but if the second story is true, wonder how wife felt about having portraits of the mistresses in her home!
If the story is true, he's pretty brazen. The glass is beautiful!
Beautiful windows. Looks like a great place to tour. Have a nice weekend. Mickie :)
I liked the guide's theory too and suspect he is correct! :)
Wonderful. I don't think I've ever seen stained glass portraits quite like these! (nor plates, for that matter...)
Stained windows are so beautiful and intriccate. Love them.
A always find stained glass windows beautiful but these are quite different from anything I've ever seen before - and strikingly lovely. Hope the second theory is true, so much more intriguing than "copied from plates".
I am such a sucker for stained glass- these are beautiful
love the stained glass and the story. men that have many (or even one) mistress is brazen / egotistical by nature.
The stained glass are so pretty!
The ladies are so very well defined, they really don't seem like stained glass!
I love all the ladies
the 'no problem' makes no sense to me either, there is nothing else on the window to explain it
odd
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