Tracery Lights
detail from Scenes from the Life of Christ
1905
Four-light window with scenes including the Annunciation, Crucifixion, Deposition and the Resurrection. Further figures and angels in the tracery lights.
firm/studio: Clayton & BellChurch of St Illtyd, Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorganeast wall of the chancel
The window was given in memory of Ernest Vachell by his widow.The four figures in the lower tracery are listed in the church guide as the saints Samson, Illtud, David and Patrick. The figures of Samson and David are however the biblical characters, the former is unusual and not nimbed, whereas David, with crown and harp, is nimbed. A serpent around the lower part of Patrick's staff seems to confirm this identification and the attributes for Illtud are appropriate. Could the biblical figures of Samson and David have been added by the London firm in error? (ObjectID=632 ImageID=8280) Original File Name=Llanilltyd_DSC9128.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 30-05-2017
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Show more subjectsVivian Kelly, St Illtud's Church Llantwit Major (1993), p. 14.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 408.
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, 2017.
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