The Nativity
detail from Scenes from the Gospels

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

Panel from the central light.

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• 'Salvator Mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet 
• baptism of Christ in the river Jordan: John the Baptist pouring out water on Christ's head: the Holy Ghost descends  [Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:29-34]
• Christ ascends into heaven; apostles (and Mary) beneath  [Acts 1:9-11; Luke 24:50-51]
• Christ, usually holding a banner, arises from the grave; often combined with sleeping and/or frightened soldiers 
• Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood  [John 19:25-27]
• flagellation by soldiers, Christ usually tied to a column - tortures of Christ  [Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:1]
• Gethsemane, Mount of Olives, 'Oelberg': Christ's prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane during the night  [Matthew 26:37-45; Mark 14:33-41; Luke 22:40-46]
• Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)  [Luke 2:1-7]
• the Last Supper  [Matthew 26:21-35; Mark 14:18-31; Luke 22:15-23; John 13:21-38]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 89.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 523.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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