Christ the Good Shepherd
detail from The Risen Christ, Christ the Light of the World and Christ the Good Shepherd
about 1900
Three-light window. The central light depicts Christ rising from the tomb with an angel and soldiers below, between conventional scenes of Christ as the Light of the World (after Holman Hunt) and Christ with shepherd's crook tending to his sheep.
firm/studio: Jones & Willis LtdChurch of St John the Baptist, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil(liturgical) north wall of the transept
The lower part of the window has been lost to vandalism (2011). The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan states that the window was signed by the firm, and gives a date of about 1893, making it perhaps the earliest window by the firm identified in Wales. However, the window may be a little later, perhaps around 1900. The figures of Christ in the side lights mirror those dated 1897 in the chancel window at Llandegley, and the central figure is very close to a design at the same church of about 1911. A version of the design used for the left-hand figure was used again in The Light of the World window of about 1912, at Buckley, and no doubt many times elsewhere.
Given in memory of John Robert Jones. (ObjectID=4103 ImageID=7658) Original File Name=Dowlais_DSC7058A.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 27-05-2016
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Show more subjectsMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 20.
John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 447.
Huw Williams, A History of the Church in the Parish of Dowlais (1977), p. 19.
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, 2016.
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