The Good Samaritan and the Supper at Emmaus
detail from The Crucifixion and Resurrection

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

about 1870 Two-light window with two main scenes, and further scenes below of the Good Samaritan. and of the Supper at Emmaus. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Joseph Bell Church of St Peter, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire north wall of the nave The window is attributed to Heaton Butler & Bayne in The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion but is more likely to be by Joseph Bell & Son. Although very different to the earlier work by the same firm in the church, it demonstrates similarities with the east window of Trinity College Chapel, Carmarthen, made a few years later. Given in memory of Maria Thomas, 1870.  (ObjectID=4896 ImageID=9423) Original File Name=CarmarthenStPeter_DSC2479B.jpg

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• a Samaritan tending the wounds of the traveller - the good Samaritan  [Luke 10:33-34]
• crucified Christ with Mary, John, and Mary Magdalene  [Matthew 27:45-58; Mark 15:33-45; Luke 23:44-52; John 19:25-38]
• the risen Christ (with wounds, but without crown of thorns), sometimes holding the cross or a banner 
• the supper at Emmaus: Christ is recognized while blessing or breaking the bread  [Luke 24:30-31]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass at the Church of St Peter, Carmarthen (Aberystwyth: Sulien Books, 2018), pp. 14–15.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass at Carmarthen (2018).

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

Photo © Martin Crampin