Scenes from the Gospels

1875
Three two-light windows. The first window depicts a standing figure of Christ in the left-hand light facing a woman in the right-hand light. Behind the woman is a tower and spire of a town. Upper quatrefoil depicts a saint with a palm and a star. The second window depicts John and kneeling figure of Peter with shepherd's staff in the left-hand light opposite Christ holding keys with sheep. Upper quatrefoil with Agnus Dei. The third window depicts Mary kneeling with standing figure of Christ teaching. Upper quatrefoil with Cecilia playing an organ.

technique: stained glass

firm/studio: Joseph Bell & Son

Church of the Holy Trinity, Aberaeron, Ceredigion
north wall of the chancel

The three windows from the original chancel apse, which was rebuilt in its present form in 1897-9.




 


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Further reading

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 393.




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