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Christ as the Good Shepherd, the Redeemer, the Light of the World and as King

  Christ as the Good Shepherd, the Redeemer, the Light of the World and as King

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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Four-light window with the standing figure of Christ in four different guises, with scenes below: Christ finding the lost sheep caught in thorns, Christ as Good Shepherd surrounded by sheep, Christ as the Sower, and angels gathering the harvest with sickles.


firm/studio: James Powell & Sons

Church of St Giles, Wrexham
north wall of the north aisle

Text: 'Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15).

Given in memory of Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, and Edward Meredith Jones, his wife Anne Maude, his son Meredith and brother Richard Meredith, by his three daughters: Annie, Fanny and Maude.

Verses from Bishop Heber's hymn From Greenland's Icy Mountains are included in the window. The hymn was written in the Old Vicarage at Wrexham.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011

 

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Further reading

Malcolm Seaborne, St Giles' Parish Church Stained Glass (Wrexham: 1998).


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/2060 (accessed 10 October 2024)



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  Christ as the Good Shepherd, the Redeemer, the Light of the World and as King

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales



 
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