Virgin Mary
detail from The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John

  Virgin Mary    detail from    The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John

Photo © Martin Crampin

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about 1533
Window containing fragments of medieval glass, including a crucifixion scene with the figures of Mary and John. There are two partial figures and part of an inscription below.

technique: stained glass
size: 117 cm (width)

Church of St Rhychwyn, Llanrhychwyn, Conwy
east wall of the north nave

The inscription below is incomplete, but according to Gwallter Mechain it was dated 1533 and the saints below were David (Sancte Davy is all that remains of the inscription) and Rhychwyn.




 

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The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St JohnThe Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St JohnCrucified Christ: The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St JohnSt John the Evangelist: The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St JohnSt Rhychwyn: The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John

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Further reading

Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), pp. 11, 72.

H. Harold Hughes, 'Llanrhychwyn Church and its Painted Windows' Archaeologia Cambrensis, vol. 82 (1927), 122-6.

S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints: the saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish saints as have dedications in Britain (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907-13), vol. 4, p. 113.

References

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 458.




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  Virgin Mary    detail from    The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John

Photo © Martin Crampin


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