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Angels with Sacred Heraldry

  Angels with Sacred Heraldry

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1927

Two-light window with standing figures of angels. In the left-hand light the angel holds a sheild with a red cross and the IHC monogram. The angel in the right-hand light holds the crown of life and the text, on a scroll, 'The greatest of these is Charity'. Vine and floreate pattern beneath, with a cross and the crown of thorns on red shields.

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

Church of St Llwchaiarn, Llanllwchaiarn, Powys
north wall of the nave

Signed 'H.G. Hiller & Co.' in the lower left-hand light.

Text (left-hand light) 'Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life' (Revelation 2:10); (right-hand light) 'Charity suffereth long and is kind. Charity never faileth' (1 Corinthians 13: 4, 8).

Dedication: 'To the glory of God and in loving memory of Eleanor Amelia Haydon wife of William Henry Haydon and daughter of James and Amelia Waddell of this parish who died 30th October 1923'.



 
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Further reading

H. N. Oliver, Llanllwchaiarn Church and Parish (2001), pp. 67-8.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2014.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/4537 (accessed 28 March 2024)



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