Crucifixion with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene

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1886 Three-light window showing the Crucifixion with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene; three angels in the lower panels. technique: stained glass size: 180 cm (width) [approx] firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt designer: Carl Almquist Church of St Bledrws, Betws Bledrws, Ceredigion east 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=1335) Original File Name=_MG_3489.jpg

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• crucified Christ with Mary, John, and Mary Magdalene  [Matthew 27:45-58; Mark 15:33-45; Luke 23:44-52; John 19:25-38]

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), pp. 304–7.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales