The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, St John and St Mary Magdalene

  The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, St John and St Mary Magdalene

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1906
Three-light window. The descending dove of the Holy Spirit with the darkened sun and moon are depicted above the scene. A serpent is depicted at the foot of the central light below Mary Magdalene.

technique: stained glass

artist: J. Silvester Sparrow

Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff, Cardiff
south wall of the south aisle

The two figures in the outer lights are close to those at either side of the cross in the artist's ambitous six-light south transept window at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Hull.




 

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Further reading

Nevil A. James, The Stained Glass of Llandaff Cathedral (Llandaff: Llandaff Cathedral Shop Committee, 1997), p. 20.

References

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 224.




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  The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, St John and St Mary Magdalene

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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