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The Risen Christ Appearing to St Mary Magdalene
detail from Scenes from the Resurrection of Christ

  The Risen Christ Appearing to St Mary Magdalene    detail from    Scenes from the Resurrection of Christ

Photo © Martin Crampin

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1918

Five-light window with five principal scenes. Flanking the Ascension at the centre are scenes of Peter and John, and the three women, at the empty tomb. On the right, Christ meets Mary Magdalene and Christ with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. The twelve disciples (including Matthias) are depicted in the tracery, with Marcella, Asaph, the pelican in her piety and the Agnus Dei.

size: 56 cm (width of each light)
artist: Henry Gustave Hiller

Church of St Marcella, Llanfarchell, Denbighshire
east wall of the south nave (window number: sI)

Signed by the artist.

Dedication: 'This window is dedicated to the honour and glory of God and in loving and grateful memory of their beloved parents by Cecil Wray Harrison and Elizabeth Frances his wife of "Goppa" Denbigh. Erected 1918. "Their children arise and call them blessed" '. The quote is adapted from Proverbs 31:28.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 18-09-2018

 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 179.


 

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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/4426 (accessed 29 March 2024)



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  The Risen Christ Appearing to St Mary Magdalene    detail from    Scenes from the Resurrection of Christ

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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