Jesse
detail from The Tree of Jesse

  Jesse    detail from    The Tree of Jesse

Photo © Martin Crampin

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1533
Five-light window. Reclining figure of Jesse below (across the central three lights) with seventeen other figures or half-figures, mainly kings and prophets, including the Virgin and Child over David and Joram in the central light. Further prophets (Isaiah, Zechariah, Obadiah and Joel) in the tracery.

technique: stained glass


Church of St Dyfnog, Llanrhaeadr
east wall of the north nave

A date of 1533 is given at the base of the right-hand light. According to tradition, this largely complete window survives because it was hidden at the time of the Civil War. Some of the glass clearly originated in other windows in the church.

The window was conserved by the York Glaziers Trust from 1986-9.





 

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The Tree of JesseTracery Lights: The Tree of JesseThe Tree of JesseThe Tree of JesseThe Tree of JesseManasseh: The Tree of JesseAhaz: The Tree of JesseHezekiah: The Tree of JesseMoses: The Tree of JesseMattatha: The Tree of JesseAsa: The Tree of JesseSolomon: The Tree of JesseVirgin and Child: The Tree of JesseJehoram: The Tree of JesseDavid: The Tree of JesseAzariah: The Tree of JesseJehosophat: The Tree of JesseRehoboam: The Tree of JesseAbiud: The Tree of JesseSalathiel: The Tree of JesseSadoc: The Tree of JesseIsaiah and Zechariah: The Tree of JesseFragmentary Figures: The Tree of JesseObadiah and Joel: The Tree of Jesse

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 42–4.

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 231.

Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), pp. 13, 69-71.

D. R. Thomas, The History of the Diocese of St Asaph (Oswestry: Caxton Press, 1908-1913), vol. II, pp. 45-6.

E. Gwynne Matthews, The Llanrhaeadr Jesse Window: its meaning and history (2000).

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 221.

H. T. Kirby, 'The 'Jesse' Tree Motif in Stained Glass, A Comparative Study of English Examples, concluded' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 2 (1960–1), 437.




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  Jesse    detail from    The Tree of Jesse

Photo © Martin Crampin


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