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Christ the Light of the World
detail from The Ascension with Christ as the Light of the World and the Good Shepherd

  Christ the Light of the World    detail from    The Ascension with Christ as the Light of the World and the Good Shepherd

Photo © Martin Crampin

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about 1870

Three-light window with scene of the Ascension at the centre, in which the disciples are crowded blow Christ as he ascends to heaven. Conventional standing figures of Christ in the outer lights.

size: 53 cm (width of each light)
firm/studio: Ward & Hughes

Church of St John the Baptist, Clydach, Swansea
east wall of the chancel (window number: I)

The window is from a complete set of windows by Ward & Hughes, the original plain glazing by the firm being replaced by later windows in the following decades.


 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 25-05-2018

 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 131.


 

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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/4120 (accessed 28 March 2024)



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  Christ the Light of the World    detail from    The Ascension with Christ as the Light of the World and the Good Shepherd

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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