Mary Magdalene at the Foot of the Cross.
detail from Crucifixion with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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1886
Three-light window showing the Crucifixion with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene; three angels in the lower panels.
size: 180 cm (width) [approx]firm/studio: Shrigley & Huntdesigner: Carl AlmquistChurch of St Bledrws, Betws Bledrws, Ceredigioneast wall of the chancel
Angel in the central lower panel holds the text: 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches & wisdom, and strength & honour & glory & blessing'.
Given in memory of John Inglis-Jones of Derry Ormond, by his wife Lady Elizabeth, 1886. (Inglis-Jones had died in 1869, aged 40). The glass displaced the east window of 1854 by Ward & Hughes, which was moved to a church nearby at Llangybi.
Note Pre-Raphaelite style of foliage background. The figures of Mary and John are particularly well drawn. (ObjectID=756 ImageID=1337) Original File Name=_MG_3488.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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Show more subjectsThomas 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), pp. 304–7.
Click to show suggested citation for this recordMartin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/756 (accessed 21 November 2024)
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