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Christ in Majesty with Saints and Angels

  Christ in Majesty with Saints and Angels

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1896

Five-light window with Christ seated in majesty in the upper central light surrounded by musical angels. The four evangelists are depicted in the outer lights and a group of saints and Old Testament characters are shown looking up from below: on the left Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Isaiah with Deiniol, Peter and Paul; and on the right Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory, Bede, Dewi (David), Edmund and Stephen. In the lower central light are archangels and the Agnus Dei with the text 'Blessed are they that do his commandments' (Revelation 22:14).


firm/studio: James Powell & Sons

Church of St Peter, Pwllheli, Gwynedd
east wall of the chancel (window number: I)

Given by Humphrey Parry.


 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 12-11-2019

 

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Further reading

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 505.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2019.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/1257 (accessed 19 March 2024)



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