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from The Virgin Mary with a Family Group

  Signature    from    The Virgin Mary with a Family Group

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1909

Two-light window. A family group is depicted in the right-hand light, standing before a female saint with a youth at her side. The saint holds what may be lilies, probably identifying her as the Virgin Mary.


firm/studio: Clayton & Bell

Church of St Stephen, Bodfari, Denbighshire
west end of the south aisle

Signed and dated with the artist's monogram.

Dedication: 'To the Glory of God and in memory of Margaret Elizabeth Mesham of Pontruffydd, Born 1805. Died 1873. This window was dedicated by her nephew Arthur Mesham.'

The window is currently obscured by dense vegetation outside (2012), making the identification of the subject uncertain. If a depiction of Mary, it represents Marian imagery still relatively unusual at this date in the Church of England (of which the Welsh Anglican church was still a part at this date). For a similar subject, by the same firm, see the window in east wall of the south aisle at Llantwit Major.



 
Record added by Peter Jones, edited by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 23-07-2012

 

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References

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 7.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2012. (record added by Peter Jones)
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/4445 (accessed 22 December 2024)


 

  Signature    from    The Virgin Mary with a Family Group

Photo © Peter Jones



 
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