Angels Holding the Beatitudes

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1887 Set of four two-light windows, showing angels holding the texts from the Beatitudes, surrounded by decorative leading. Delicate gold and silver colouration for the figures, set in opaque quarries. Some figures now suffering weathering. technique: stained glass size: 40 cm (width of each light) [approx] firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt designer: Carl Almquist Church of St Bledrws, Betws Bledrws, Ceredigion nave Glass by Carl Almquist for Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster and London. 1886-87.  (ObjectID=757 ImageID=1343) Original File Name=_MG_3501.jpg

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• angels 
• beatitudes of the sermon on the mount  [Matthew 5:1-12]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 169.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 434.

William Waters, Stained Glass from Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster and London (Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies University of Lancaster, 2003), p. 85.

William Waters, Damozels and Deities: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870–1898 (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2017), p. 306.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales