Christ the Good Shepherd with the Virgin and Child

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin larger image

1937 Two-light window. At the top of the left-hand light, with the standing figure of Christ as the Good Shepherd, is a depiction of the feeding of the five thousand, together with the words 'Feed my sheep' (John 21:16 and 17). At the top of the right-hand light. over the Virgin and Child is the scene of the Annunciation, with the text 'Blessed art thou among Women' (Luke 1:28 and 42). technique: stained glass artist: George J. Hunt Church of St Illtyd, Llantwit Fardre, Rhondda Cynon Taff north wall of the nave Signed and dated with the artist's monogram. Given in memory of Revd John Jenkins, first vicar of the parish (1873-1923), and his wife Elizabeth Florence Jenkins, in 1937 by Hilda Capenhurst, the sister of Elizabeth Jenkins.  (ObjectID=2219 ImageID=5505) Original File Name=_DSC4063.jpg

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• Christ as Good Shepherd  [John 10:1-18]
• Madonna: Mary standing (or half-length), Christ-child close to her bosom 
• multiplication of loaves and fishes for a multitude of four or five thousand people - miracles of Christ  [Matthew 14:13-21; Matthew 15:32-39; Mark 6:32-44; Mark 8:1-10; Luke 9:10-17]
• the Annunciation: Mary, usually reading, is visited by the angel  [Luke 1:26-38]
• the lost sheep sought and found by the shepherd - parable of the good shepherd  [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:4-7]

Len Tarr, Parish of Llantwit Fardre: St Illtud's (Pontypridd: 2008), p. 14.

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin