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St Paul Explains the Gospel to Caractacus and His Father Bran the Blessed
detail from Scenes from Early Christian History

  St Paul Explains the Gospel to Caractacus and His Father Bran the Blessed    detail from    Scenes from Early Christian History

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1897

Three-light window. Paul explaining the Gospel to Caractacus and Bendigeidfran; the marriage of Pudens and Claudia, and St Prasside and St Pudenziana.

size: 40 cm (width of each light) [approx]
designer: Charles Edward Tute

Church of St Llonio, Llandinam, Powys
south wall of the south aisle chapel

Given by Elinor Powel in memory of her parents Richard and Elinor Powel of Trewythen. The subjects were commissioned to celebrate the legendary connection of the area with Caractacus, and his association with Paul and the early church in Rome.


 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 18-08-2020

 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 160.

Martha Vandrei, 'Claudia Rufina' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. pp. 60–76.

References

Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: 1979), p. 121.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2020.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/696 (accessed 22 December 2024)



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  St Paul Explains the Gospel to Caractacus and His Father Bran the Blessed    detail from    Scenes from Early Christian History

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales



 
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