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Figures Receiving the Crown of Life
detail from St Cecilia and Faith

  Figures Receiving the Crown of Life    detail from    St Cecilia and Faith

Photo © Martin Crampin

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about 1923

Two-light window with standing female figures, with local scenery behind them. The panel below Cecilia shows an angel offering a floral crown to a kneeling woman (probably Cecilia) with an organ in the background and a further figure at the door. Below Faith a kneeling soldier in chain mail receives the crown of life from a standing angel, with further angels in the background.


firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd
designer: Ernest Penwarden

Church of St James, Manorbier, Pembrokeshire
north wall of the north aisle

Given in memory of May Parcell (died 1922) by her husband and children.


 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011

 

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References

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 275.


 

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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/2361 (accessed 27 December 2024)


 

  Figures Receiving the Crown of Life    detail from    St Cecilia and Faith

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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