The Good Samaritan
detail from Ascension with Scenes from the Parables
Photo © Martin Crampin
Detail of the lower left-hand light
larger image
about 1872
Three-light window. Ascension with scenes from four parables of Christ: the labourers in the vineyard, the parable of the talents, the good Samaritan, and the tares among the wheat.
size: 55 cm (width of each light) [approx]artist: Charles Alexander GibbsChurch of St Mary, Ruabon, Wrexhamwest wall of the south aisle
Upper left text: 'For many be called but few chosen' (Matthew 20:16;22:14); upper right text 'Well done thou good and faithful servant' (Matthew 25:21); left lower text: 'Go and do thou likewise' (Luke 10:37); central lower text: 'And a cloud received him out of their sight' (Acts 1:9); right lower text: 'But while men slept his enemy came and sowed tare' (Matthew 13:25).
Dedication: In memory of William Jones of Plas Newydd d.1872 Agent on the Wynnstay Estate. (ObjectID=1011 ImageID=2109) Original File Name=_MG_5855.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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Click here for other works at this siteClick here for other works connected to Charles Alexander GibbsReferencesEdward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 269.
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.
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