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Simon of Cyrene is Compelled to Carry the Cross
from Stations of the Cross

  Simon of Cyrene is Compelled to Carry the Cross    from    Stations of the Cross

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about 1971

Set of stations of the cross as vertical window lights around the walls of the church.


artist: Frank Roper

Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire
north, south and east walls of the nave

The choice of colour would have been deeply influenced by the artist's wife, Nora Roper.

Elsewhere the windows have been dated as 1972–3. The windows were originally commissioned by March 1970, and correspondence with the artist shows that he was working on them during that year, and they were still under way in November, by which time the cost had risen from 'about £40 a piece' to £50 each. Presumably, he finished them either by the end of the year, or early in 1971.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin, Additional contribution by John Morgan-Guy. Last updated on 13-12-2011

 

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Further reading

Peter Leech, The Religious Art of Frank Roper: An Introduction (Much Wenlock: RJL Smith & Associates, 2003), pp. 6-7.

References

Church Guide.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 352.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011. (with a contribution by John Morgan-Guy)
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/3130 (accessed 6 November 2024)



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  Simon of Cyrene is Compelled to Carry the Cross    from    Stations of the Cross

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