Boaz and Jachin

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about 1920 Two-light window, with the two standing figures under elaborate canopies. They both hold the pillars of the temple named after them. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Percy Bacon Brothers Church of St Nicholas and St John, Monkton, Pembrokeshire north wall of the north chancel chapel Inscriptions: 'He set up the left pillar and called the name Boaz', 'He set up the right pillar and called the name thereof Jachin'. Given by the Freemasons.  (ObjectID=878 ImageID=1646) Original File Name=_MG_4077.jpg

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• the two brazen pillars: Jachin and Boaz (the decoration of the temple of Solomon)  [1 Kings 7:21]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 216.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 297.

Some Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1930), p. 12.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales