St Christopher
detail from St John the Baptist, St Christopher and St Peter

  St Christopher    detail from    St John the Baptist, St Christopher and St Peter

Photo © Martin Crampin

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1915
Three-light window with standing figures. John the Baptist cradles the Agnus Dei, Christopher wades through the waters with the infant Christ on his shoulder, and Peter holds keys and nets.

technique: stained glass

firm/studio: C.E. Kempe & Co Ltd

Church of St Augustine, Rumney, Cardiff
north wall of the nave

The Kempe and Tower mark is included in the lower left-hand light.

Over the figure of Christopher is the text: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me' (Matthew 25:40).

The window, as with those in the south wall of the chancel, is also given in memory of James Edward Harris, this one being given by Edith Long Fox, 1915.





 

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References

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 329.




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  St Christopher    detail from    St John the Baptist, St Christopher and St Peter

Photo © Martin Crampin


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