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The Wedding at Cana

  The Wedding at Cana

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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about 1865

Single-light window, three scenes from the narrative surrounded by New Testament characters. The miracle is depicted at the centre, with the last of the wine above and Christ with his mother below.


firm/studio: Clayton & Bell

Church of St Mary, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
south wall

A memorial to Evan Charles Owen, Rector of Dolgellau (died 1864).

Note how the water (white) becomes wine (red) as poured.

 
Record added by Martin Crampin, Additional contribution by John Morgan-Guy. Last updated on 20-12-2011

 

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References

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 586.

William Waters, Angels & Icons: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850–1870 (Abbots Morton: Serapim Press, 2012), pp. 113, 116, 363.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011. (with a contribution by John Morgan-Guy)
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/550 (accessed 22 December 2024)



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  The Wedding at Cana

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales



 
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