The Virgin Mary
detail from The Crucifixion with the Adoration of the Magi

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1883, with glass from about 1483-5 and 1500 Five-light window comprising medieval glass worked into a nineteenth century design. The central three lights depict Christ crucified with angels between Mary and John, and below four figures flank the Virgin and Child. Standing figures of saints in the outer lights: David and Thomas, with a lion and a boar below. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Burlison & Grylls restorer: Burlison & Grylls Church of St Mary, Nercwys, Flintshire east wall of the chancel Given in memory of Thomas Wynne & Frederick Francis Lloyd Fletcher. The majority of the window is of 1883, incorporating fragments from at least two medieval windows. Several of the angels are medieval, as well as sections of the canopies. Also probably medieval are David's mitre, the head of John, and parts of the lion and boar. As the boar was the symbol of Richard III, this window can perhaps be dated to his short reign (1483-5).  (ObjectID=2169 ImageID=5348) Original File Name=Nercwys_DSC3053.jpg

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• adoration of the kings: the Wise Men present their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh)  [Matthew 2:11]
• Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood  [John 19:25-27]
• Madonna: Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in her lap 
• St David 
• the apostle Thomas 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 31, 35.

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 404.

Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), pp. 5, 85-6.

Photo © Martin Crampin