St Ambrose and St Jerome

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1892 Two-light window with standing figures and a scene of the three women at the empty tomb below. The left-hand figure holds a cross and an open book, while the right-hand figure is dressed in red as a cardinal with a lion. technique: stained glass firm/studio: C.E. Kempe Church of St John, Barmouth, Gwynedd north wall of the sanctuary The window forms a pair with the adjacent window of the north chancel wall, depicting the four Latin fathers of the church. Ambrose is identified by the two opening words of the Ambrosian hymn, the 'Te Deum'.  (ObjectID=4932 ImageID=9494) Original File Name=BarmouthStJohn_DSC1212Bb.jpg

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• Ambrose, bishop of Milan; possible attributes: beehive, cradle with baby, three-knotted scourge 
• the monk and hermit Jerome (Hieronymus) 

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 330.

Photo © Martin Crampin