Musical Angels
1883
Two-light window with four seated angels playing different instruments, with texts from the Beatitudes. Lilies amid vines above.
size: 39 cm (width of each light)firm/studio: C.E. KempeChurch of All Saints, Newbridge-on-Wyesouth wall of the nave (window number: sVIII)
The texts with the angels are 'Blessed are the pure in heart', 'for they shall see God' (Matthew 5:8). The text is given once in the left-hand light, and once in the right-hand light.
The window was given in memory of Henry Venables (1872-6), and is contemporary with the sanctuary windows. (ObjectID=4959 ImageID=9578) Original File Name=Newbridge-on-Wye_DSC7555A.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 06-06-2018
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Show more subjectsPhilip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 333.
Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 378.
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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