Italian Glass Fragments with Angels
seventeenth or eighteenth century
Two pairs of lights with various fragments and parts of scenes including angels. Some of the angels hold crowns, and there are some crowned heads in some of the windows.
Church of All Saints, Gresford, Wrexhamsouth porch (window number: sX-sXI)
Glass of Italian origin given to the church in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Originally sited in the main body of the church, the glass was re-sited in the east and west walls of the south porch by Percy and Daisy Rooper, as a memorial to their two sons Ralph and Trevor, who died in the First World War. (ObjectID=3739 ImageID=6313) Original File Name=Gresford_MG_5781.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 24-05-2018
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Show more subjectsMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 67.
Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), p. 37.
ReferencesEdward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 172.
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.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/3739 (accessed 18 December 2024)
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