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St Martin of Tours
detail from St George and St Martin of Tours

  St Martin of Tours    detail from    St George and St Martin of Tours

Photo © Martin Crampin

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about 1920

Two-light window with standing figures.

size: 50 cm (width of each light) [approx]
artist: Christopher Whall

Church of St Peblig, Caernarfon, Gwynedd
south wall of the nave

Given by friends in memory of Morys Wynne-Jones of Treiorwerth, Anglesey, born in 1887 and killed in action in Belgium in 1914.

A very similar figure of Martin is found in the three-light window by Whall at Grays Inn Chapel, London, 1919.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 22-03-2018

 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 193.

References

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 284.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2018.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/3882 (accessed 29 March 2024)


 

  St Martin of Tours    detail from    St George and St Martin of Tours

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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