SImeon with the Infant Christ
detail from The Presentation in the Temple
1919
Two-light window. Simeon holds the infant Christ in the right-hand light, with Mary kneeling in the left-hand light, with Joseph, Anna, and another male figure behind. The windows includes a detailed depiction of the interior of the Temple, using which has arched windows, a figure of Moses with the Ten Commandments, and an image of Daniel in the lions' den.
size: 40 cm (width of each light)firm/studio: C.E. Kempe & Co LtdChurch of St John, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshiresouth wall of the Lady chapel (window number: sIII)
Signed with the mark of the firm.
Simeon is speaking the words 'Nunc dimittis servum tuum' (Luke 2:29).
The window was given by the parents of Frederick George Truscott, who was killed near Salonika, 23 April 1918. (ObjectID=4968 ImageID=9613) Original File Name=PembrokeDock_DSC8109A.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 07-11-2020
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Show more subjectsPhilip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 332.
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, 2020.
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