Stained Glass in Wales | Gwydr Lliw yng Nghymru

St John the Baptist with Angels

  St John the Baptist with Angels

Photo © Martin Crampin

larger image

probably late nineteenth century

Three-light window with standing figure of John the Baptist in the centre light and roundels with angels holding scrolls in the outer lights, set amid patterned quarries.


firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt

Church of St Mary, Bangor, Gwynedd
south wall of the south aisle (window number: sII)

The window seems to be dated 1864 (the year that the church was built), but the style of the angels and figure of John the Baptist looks more likely to be of a later date, and very probably the work of Shrigley & Hunt who made the east window and a later south aisle window. The angel in the left-hand light appears to have suffered greater paint loss that the one in the right-hand light, and some inconsistencies in colour might point to the window being a composite work: perhaps a window of 1864 that was partly renewed and a figure added at a later date.


 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 25-05-2018

 

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

St John the Baptist: St John the Baptist with AngelsAngel: St John the Baptist with Angels

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


Click here for other works at this site
Click here for other works connected to Shrigley & Hunt

Further reading

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 245.


 

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, 2018.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/4676 (accessed 25 April 2024)



View this object on the Imaging the Bible in Wales database

 

  St John the Baptist with Angels

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies


Database and software developed by Technoleg Taliesin © 2011-2024