Simeon Holding the Christ-child
detail from The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

  Simeon Holding the Christ-child    detail from    The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1949
Three-light window with Simeon holding the Christ-child in the central light, Mary and Joseph in the left-hand light and Anna standing in the right-hand light. The symbols of the four evangelists appear above in the tracery lights.

technique: stained glass

firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd.

Church of the Holy Trinity, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
west wall of the nave

Given in memory of Sarah Lewis (died 1931) and Annie Elizabeth Lewis (died 1945). The faculty for the window is dated January 1949, and the window is also dated 1949 in Dennis Hadley's handlist of windows by Powell's.




 

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The Presentation of Christ in the TempleThe Presentation of Christ in the TempleThe Presentation of Christ in the TempleMary and Joseph: The Presentation of Christ in the TempleAnna: The Presentation of Christ in the TempleThe Symbols of the Four Evangelists: The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

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References

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 404.




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  Simeon Holding the Christ-child    detail from    The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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