The Adoration of the Shepherds
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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1916
Three-light window depicting the Virgin and Child being adored by the shepherds and angels overhead. Scenes from the youth of Christ in roundels in the lower panels.
size: 190 cm (width) [approx]firm/studio: C.E. Kempe & Co LtdChurch of St John the Baptist, Newportnorth wall of the north aisle
Signed with the tower and wheatsheaf.
Given in memory of Sister Selina CSJB Foundress and First Superior of the Mission House of St John the Baptist's Children's Home 1877-1915 and also the assistance of Sister Eusejan CSJB. Dedicated on June 23rd 1916 by Canon Dawson of Chislehurst, a former Chaplain of the Sisters. The window was the gift of the congregation and friends. (ObjectID=290 ImageID=1078) Original File Name=_MG_2101.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 14-12-2011
For other views of this work click on the image(s) below:For other artworks containing these subjects please click on the links below:Donald Curtis, The Stained Glass of the parish church of St. John the Baptist, Newport, Monmouthshire (1957), p.9-10.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London/Cardiff: 2000), p. 429.
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/290 (accessed 24 April 2024)
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