The Virgin Mary and St John
from Scenes from the Life of Christ
1915
The sanctuary windows comprise five two-light windows. The subjects are the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi, the Crucifixion, the three women at the empty tomb, and the risen Christ meeting Mary Magdalene in the garden.
The Crucifixion scene shows Christ on the cross in the left-hand light, with Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross, and his mother Mary is depicted with John in the right-hand light.
size: 46 cm (width of each light) [approx]firm/studio: C.E. Kempe & Co LtdChrist Church, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshireeast wall of the sanctuary apse (window number: I)
Text over the scene: 'Greater love hath no man than this' (John 15:13). (ObjectID=4942 ImageID=9538) Original File Name=CarmarthenChristChurch_DSC5761-71A.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 24-05-2018
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Show more subjectsPhilip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), pp. 323-4.
Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 133.
Click to show suggested citation for this recordMartin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2018.
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