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Christ Carrying the Cross
detail from Scenes from the Passion of Christ

  Christ Carrying the Cross    detail from    Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Photo © Martin Crampin

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1903

Four-light window with four scenes, each divided across two window lights. Lower left: Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane; lower right: Christ with Pilate and soldiers before his accusers; top left: Christ carrying the cross; top right: the Crucifixion with bystanders and soldiers dividing his possessions. Instruments of the Passion in the tracery lights, with censing angels.

size: 50 cm (width of each light) [approx]
firm/studio: C.E. Kempe

Church of St Mary, Builth Wells, Powys
east wall of the chancel (window number: I)

Given in memory of Clara, widow of Henry Thomas of Llwyn Madog, and daughter of Thomas Thomas, Pencerrig. She died in 1877.

Texts with main scenes: 'Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow' (Lamentations 1:12), 'I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath' (Lamentations 3:1, both with Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane); 'O death I will be thy plagues, O grave I will be thy destruction (Hosea 13:14), 'My soul is among lions' (Psalm 57:4, both with Christ before Pilate); 'Christ the Lord became obedient for us unto death. Even the death of the Cross' (Philippians 2:8, with Christ carrying the cross); 'What are these wounds in thine hands' (Zechariah 13:6), 'They pierced my hands and my feet' (Psalm 22:16, both with the Crucifixion).



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 17-05-2018

 

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References

Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: 1979), p. 304.

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 322.


 

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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/4029 (accessed 29 March 2024)



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  Christ Carrying the Cross    detail from    Scenes from the Passion of Christ

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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