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St Giles, St Asaph and St David
from Tree of Jesse and Saints

  St Giles, St Asaph and St David    from    Tree of Jesse and Saints

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1914

Five-light window depicting the Tree of Jesse flanked by two three-light windows depicting saints.

Jesse is flanked by David and Solomon, with Abraham and Ruth in the outer lights. Above Old Testament Kings kneel in adoration of Christ seated in Majesty, holding a book with the text 'The word was God' (John 1:1). In the outer lights are the figures of Mary and Joseph, with scenes showing the Annunciation and the Nativity. In the tracery are two trumpeting angels with the text 'He ever liveth' (Hebrews 7:25), with seraphim, the dove of the Holy Spirit and the alpha and omega.

The patron of the church, Giles, is depicted with the Welsh saints Asaph and David, with Dunawd, Deiniol and Collen in the right-hand window.


firm/studio: James Powell & Sons

Church of St Giles, Wrexham
sanctuary apse

Installed with the reredos at the time of the renovation of the chancel. Given in memory of John Allington Hughes by his daughter.

The new glass displaced that by David Evans from the east window, scenes from which were subsequently reset in the north window of the chancel.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 09-10-2021

 

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References

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 301.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2021.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/3192 (accessed 28 March 2024)


 

  St Giles, St Asaph and St David    from    Tree of Jesse and Saints

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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