Stained Glass in Wales | Gwydr Lliw yng Nghymru

Christ with Children

  Christ with Children

Photo © Martin Crampin

larger image

1893

Three-light window with the outer lights mainly of quarries, some of which are medieval, with a few other medieval fragments. The central light depicts the seated figure of Christ with three children, and further quarries above and below.


firm/studio: James Powell & Sons
artist: Christopher Whall

Church of St Cynfarch and St Mary, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire
south wall of the south nave (window number: sV)

As well as designing the window, Christopher Whall closely supervised its manufacture and painted some of the window himself.

Text: 'He shall gather the Lambs with His arm' (Isaiah 40:11).

Dedication: 'To the memory of Helen Louisa Gertrude infant daughter of Basil M. Jones MA Vicar of this parish and Emily his wife June 13 1890.'



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 09-11-2020

 

For other views of this work click on the image(s) below:

Christ with ChildrenChrist with Children

This work is indexed under the following main subject(s):
for other works containing these subjects please click on the links.

Show more subjects

Click here for other works at this site
Click here for other works connected to James Powell & Sons
Click here for other works connected to Christopher Whall

Further reading

Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), p. 61.

Peter Cormack, Arts and Crafts Stained Glass (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), p. 79.

Peter Cormack, The Stained Glass Work of Christopher Whall 1849–1924 'Aglow with Brave Resplendent Colour' (Boston: Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation and Trustees of Boston Publie Library, 1999), p. 16.

References

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 175.

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 206.


 

Click to show suggested citation for this record
Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2020.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/2079 (accessed 10 October 2024)



View this object on the Imaging the Bible in Wales database

 

  Christ with Children

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies


Database and software developed by Technoleg Taliesin © 2011-2024