Scenes from the Passion and the Nativity
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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Three-light window with the Crucifixion with Mary and John at the centre, flanked by soldiers. Lower panels showing Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Nativity and the Mocking of Christ.
firm/studio: Alexander GibbsChurch of St Peter, Bont-goch, Ceredigioneast wall of sanctuary
Centre light: Crucifixion, with Mary & John as flanking figures (John 19:25). Below is a Nativity scene, with Mary, Joseph (note the rod, a reference to Protoevangelion 8:8-12) and the ox and ass. Left light: two soldiers at the crucifixion, one bearing a halberd, the other a shield with the initials SPQR. (Senatus Populusque Romanus - the Senate & People of Rome). This is the official formula of the Imperial Government, used on seals, coins, documents and the standards of the Legions. Its use here by the artist is to signify the official recognition by the Roman authorities of the sentence of death pronounced on Jesus. Below is a representation Gethsemane, with three sleeping apostles, the praying Christ, and the angel with the cup (Luke 22:40-45). Right: two soldiers, one bearing a spear (i.e. Longinus, a reference to John 19:34), the other holding a white robe. In the foreground a stool with dice (John 19:24). Below soldiers crown the seated Jesus with thorns. It is interesting that the artist has chosen to depict Christ's robe as white (the colour of Divinity) and not purple, as (e.g. John 19:2) the gospels record. He has also depicted the soldiers wearing medieval and not Roman armour. (ObjectID=885 ImageID=1665) Original File Name=_MG_4839.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin, Additional contribution by John Morgan-Guy. Last updated on 20-12-2011
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Show more subjectsThomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 468.
John Morgan-Guy, Glass by Alexander Gibbs at Elerch (Lampeter: 2009).
ReferencesMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 118.
Click to show suggested citation for this recordMartin 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)
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