Portrait of Paul Girardot and Heraldry
detail from Courage and Victory

  Portrait of Paul Girardot and Heraldry    detail from    Courage and Victory

Photo © Martin Crampin

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about 1915
Two-light window with standing armoured figures representing Courage and Victory.

technique: stained glass

firm/studio: Percy Bacon Brothers

Church of St Peter, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire
north wall of the nave

Dedication: 'In loving memory of Paul Chancourt Girardot 2nd Lieut of the 52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who fell 16th of September 1914 at Soupir-sur-Aisne. Aged 18 years. Only child of the late Lieut Col. John Francis Girardot, JP, of the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry, late of CarColston Hall Notts and of Mary his wife.' They also lived at Trevaughan, Carmarthen.

Paul Chancourt Girardot was also commemorated in another window by Burlison & Grylls at Holy Trinity, Kensington.





 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 198.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass at the Church of St Peter, Carmarthen (Aberystwyth: Sulien Books, 2018), pp. 20–1.

References

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 130.

Some Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1930), p. 12.




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  Portrait of Paul Girardot and Heraldry    detail from    Courage and Victory

Photo © Martin Crampin


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