The Armies of Heaven
1873, with fragments from about 1500
Four-light window depicting the armies of heaven at war. The central image is surrounded by eight angels each holding one of the Beatitudes. The figure on a white horse at the centre rides beneath the text 'Faithful and true', from Revelation 19:11.
There are fragments of medieval glass in the tracery, including fragments of angels and figures of Peter and Barbara.
size: 48 cm (width of each light) [approx]firm/studio: Heaton, Butler & BayneChurch of All Saints, Gresford, Wrexhamsouth wall of the nave (window number: sVI)
Inscription: "And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean". (Revelation 19:14). (ObjectID=980 ImageID=2495) Original File Name=_MG_5677.jpgRecord added by Charlene Crampin, edited by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 27-04-2018
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Show more subjectsMostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), p. 38.
ReferencesEdward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 172.
Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 220.
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, 2018. (record added by Charlene Crampin)
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