2017
Beaumaris Castle
‘Technically perfect and constructed according to an ingenious ‘walls within walls’ plan, Beaumaris Castle was the 13th-century hi-tech equivalent of a spaceship landing unceremoniously on Anglesey today’
Beaumaris Castle guide, CADW
Linda Norris and I, working as the Creative Partnership, Studio Melyn, created five windows for The Chapel Royal, Beaumaris Castle, a 13th Century castle on Anglesey in North Wales.
This work was a commissioned by CADW and we used the plan of the castle, large in scale and centralized within the window layout, as an underlying structure for the windows into which areas of colour and detail was placed. The patterns and colours reference medieval manuscripts, musical notation, coinage, heraldry and the marks of the masons who built the castle.
In the studio
“These are very beautiful windows in Beaumaris castle chapel. They are magnificent and graceful in their position. I see from the patterns that there are echoes of the castle floor plan and congratulate the artists for presenting such a simple yet effective design.
Of course, as I'm looking at it from afar, I'm sure I don't see or appreciate all aspects of the scheme. In its own way, this is part of the pleasure as there is a mystery and so it stimulates my curiosity. "
Sali Davies, Castle Visitor, Gwynedd
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Beaumaris Castle
Castle Street, Beaumaris
Wales. LL58 8AP
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Beaumaris Castle | Cadw (gov.wales)
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