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Figure of Elijah
detail from The Transfiguration

  Figure of Elijah    detail from    The Transfiguration

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1884

A five-light window depicting Christ with Moses, Elijah and three apostles surrounded by musical angels. Above a rainbow, the hand of God points down with angels holding the text 'This is my beloved Son. Hear Him.'


designer: John Pollard Seddon
firm/studio: S. Belham & Co.
designer: Frederic Shields

Church of St Padarn, Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion
east wall of the chancel

Designed by J.P. Seddon with the assistance of the painter Frederic James Shields. Painted by H.G. Murray. The window was installed by Roderick Williams, according to a report in the local newspaper, the Cambrian News (May 1884).


 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 14-12-2011

 

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Further reading

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 496.

References

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 138.


 

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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/954 (accessed 28 March 2024)



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  Figure of Elijah    detail from    The Transfiguration

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales



 
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