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The Enemy Sowing Tares Among the Wheat
detail from Ascension with Scenes from the Parables

  The Enemy Sowing Tares Among the Wheat    detail from    Ascension with Scenes from the Parables

Photo © Martin Crampin

Detail of the lower left-hand light.

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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 Gibbs

Church of St Mary, Ruabon, Wrexham
west 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.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011

 

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References

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 269.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/1011 (accessed 19 March 2024)



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  The Enemy Sowing Tares Among the Wheat    detail from    Ascension with Scenes from the Parables

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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