The Resurrected Christ, Christ the Teacher and Christ the Good Shepherd

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Upper part of the window showing the tracery lights. larger image

about 1883 Three-light window with standing figures of Christ. A sleeping soldier at the feet of the resurrected Christ in the central light. Annunciation and dove of the Holy Spirit in the tracery lights. technique: stained glass firm/studio: probably Clayton & Bell Church of St Egwad, Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire east wall of the chancel Gabriel bears the text 'Hail thou that art highly favoured' and Mary holds a codex, traditionally open at Isaiah 7:14. The figures of Christ as Teacher and Good Shepherd are suitable for a memorial to a priest, as here to the Revd Thomas Beynon Nicholl (1843-81), vicar of the parish.  (ObjectID=905 ImageID=1688) Original File Name=_MG_4901.jpg

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• Christ as Good Shepherd  [John 10:1-18]
• Christ preaching or teaching (in general) 
• Christ, usually holding a banner, arises from the grave; often combined with sleeping and/or frightened soldiers 
• the lost sheep sought and found by the shepherd - parable of the good shepherd  [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:4-7]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 150.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 273.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales