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Receiving the Crown of Life

  Receiving the Crown of Life

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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about 1946

Two-light window with a soldier kneeling before Christ, who holds a crown.



Church of the Holy Trinity, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire
south wall of the nave

Text: 'Be thou faithful unto death I will give thee a crown of Life' (Revelation 2:10). The correspondence regarding the commissioning of the window specifically mentions the related imagery of 2 Esdras 2:42–8).

The window was given in memory of Eric Spencer Jones, who had been a student at Keble College, Oxford, and was preparing for ordination. He was killed in action 13 January 1945, and the faculty for the window is dated November 1945.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 21-11-2023

 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2023.
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  Receiving the Crown of Life

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