Heads detail from Medieval Fragments - image from Stained Glass in Wales

Heads
detail from Medieval Fragments

Photo © Martin Crampin

about 1500 with heraldry from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

Fragments set into a three-light window in 1920. Includes heads of bishops and a half-length Mary, possibly from a crucifixion scene.

Church of St Mary and Nicholas, Beaumaris, Anglesey
south wall of the sanctuary (window number: sII)

Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 19-08-2019

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Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood [John 19:25-27]

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 35.

Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), pp. 27-8.

References

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 106.

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2019.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/3730 (accessed 23 December 2024)

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