The Good Wife

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1896 Three-light window. The central light depicts a mother carrying an infant and holding the hand of a young boy (probably portraits). Left light depicts four more children, and the right light a man and a shepherd. Bodelwyddan church is shown in the background. Six angels bearing texts in the tracery. technique: stained glass size: 45 cm (width of each light) [approx] firm/studio: T.F. Curtis, Ward & Hughes designer: T. F. Curtis Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire west end of the south aisle Six angels in the tracery bear the following texts: "She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life", "This women was full of good works", "Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thine house, thy children like the olive branches round thy table". Angels hold further texts in upper part of main lights: "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband", "her price is far above rubies", "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her". Angels in the lower part of the window bear the following texts: "Her children arise up and call her blessed", "Her husband also and he praiseth her". Dedication: To the glory of God and in memory of Ellinor Harriet Williams born May 3, 1864 died April 30, 1894. This window is dedicated by her husband William Grenville Williams and her brother Francis Hunt Sitwell AD 1896.  (ObjectID=1009 ImageID=1769) Original File Name=_MG_5649.jpg

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• Bodelwyddan Church 
• The Good Wife: the book of Proverbs  [Proverbs 31:10-31]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 155.

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 324.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 20.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales