Soldiers Asleep at the Empty Tomb
detail from Scenes from the Resurrection of Christ

  Soldiers Asleep at the Empty Tomb    detail from    Scenes from the Resurrection of Christ

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1897
Three-light window with the figure of the risen Christ in glory above the empty tomb with sleeping soldiers below. In the lower left-hand light Peter and John visit the empty tomb, and in the lower right-hand light the three Marys are greeted by two angels.

technique: stained glass

firm/studio: C.E. Kempe

Church of St Cybi, Holyhead, Anglesey
east wall of the chancel

Given in memory of William Watson (died 1883), chairman and managing director of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Co.




 

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Scenes from the Resurrection of ChristSt Peter and St John at the Empty Tomb: Scenes from the Resurrection of ChristAngels Addressing the Women at the Empty Tomb: Scenes from the Resurrection of Christ

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References

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 321.

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 129.




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  Soldiers Asleep at the Empty Tomb    detail from    Scenes from the Resurrection of Christ

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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