Scenes from the Early Life of Christ

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1894 Three-light window. Christ is shown as a boy in Joseph's carpenter's workshop with Mary and another woman at the centre, and in the left-hand light he is shown debating with the doctors of the law in the temple. The right-hand light shows the adult Christ reading in the synagogue amid a group of listeners. An additional figure of Christ at the top of the central light holds a book displaying a text. technique: stained glass size: 51 cm (width of each light) firm/studio: Lavers & Westlake Church of St John, Porthmadog, Gwynedd south wall of the south aisle Signed 'Lavers and Westlake'. Given in memory of Richard Grindley (1839–1893). The window was installed and unveiled in the summer of 1894. The open book bears the text 'For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous' (Romans 5:19).  (ObjectID=5512 ImageID=10800) Original File Name=Porthmadog_DSC0155-71C.jpg

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• Christ preaching in the temple 
• Christ's dispute with the doctors in the temple  [Luke 2:46-50]
• Joseph with the Christ-child (and Mary) in his carpenter's workshop - daily life in Nazareth 

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 499.

Photo © Martin Crampin