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Angels Holding the Beatitudes

  Angels Holding the Beatitudes

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1887

Set of four two-light windows, showing angels holding the texts from the Beatitudes, surrounded by decorative leading. Delicate gold and silver colouration for the figures, set in opaque quarries. Some figures now suffering weathering.

size: 40 cm (width of each light) [approx]
firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt
designer: Carl Almquist

Church of St Bledrws, Betws Bledrws, Ceredigion
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Glass by Carl Almquist for Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster and London. 1886-87.


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

 

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References

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 169.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 434.

William Waters, Stained Glass from Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster and London (Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies University of Lancaster, 2003), p. 85.

William Waters, Damozels and Deities: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870–1898 (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2017), p. 306.


 

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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/757 (accessed 29 March 2024)



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