The Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi

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1928 Three-light window. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd designer: J. Hodges Church of St James the Great, Walwyn's Castle, Pembrokeshire east wall of the chancel Text: 'Glory to God in the highest. Arise shine for thy light has come'. Dedication: 'To the Glory of God and in memory of James Bowlas Summers and Emma Mary Anne Summers of Rosemoor of this parish AD 1928'. An attractive composition. Note the star in the apex of the window. The lantern held by the elderly shepherd (left) is in the style popularized by Holman Hunt in his 'Light of the World'. The kneeling magus (right) has the pose and features common in fifteenth-sixteenth century 'donor' portraits in windows and manuscripts - a conscious piece of medievalism.  (ObjectID=421 ImageID=651) Original File Name=_MG_0885.jpg

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• adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds; Mary and Joseph present  [Luke 2:16]
• adoration of the kings: the Wise Men present their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh)  [Matthew 2:11]

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 493.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales