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Courage and Victory

  Courage and Victory

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about 1915

Two-light window with standing armoured figures representing Courage and Victory.


firm/studio: Percy Bacon Brothers

Church of St Peter, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire
north wall of the nave (window number: nVIII)

Dedication: 'In loving memory of Paul Chancourt Girardot 2nd Lieut of the 52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who fell 16th of September 1914 at Soupir-sur-Aisne. Aged 18 years. Only child of the late Lieut Col. John Francis Girardot, JP, of the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry, late of CarColston Hall Notts and of Mary his wife.' They also lived at Trevaughan, Carmarthen.

Paul Chancourt Girardot was also commemorated in another window by Burlison & Grylls at Holy Trinity, Kensington.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 27-04-2018

 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 198.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass at the Church of St Peter, Carmarthen (Aberystwyth: Sulien Books, 2018), pp. 20–1.

References

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 130.

Some Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1930), p. 12.


 

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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/4898 (accessed 28 March 2024)



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  Courage and Victory

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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