The Deposition and Pietà
detail from Scenes from the Life of Christ

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales The dead Christ is tended by Mary and angels at the foot of the cross. larger image

1893 Three-light window depicting the life of Christ in six scenes. Annunciation and Visitation; Crucifixion and Deposition; Nativity and the Presentation in the Temple. technique: stained glass firm/studio: C.E. Kempe Church of St Mary the Virgin, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire east wall of the chancel The window is signed not only with Kempe's personal mark, in this case the three wheatsheaves, but also the monogram of Kempe's superintendent of his glassworks, A.E. Tombleson. These are located about half way down the inner edge of the two outer lights. Given in memory of Rev. James Phillips of Picton Castle, died 1893.  (ObjectID=259 ImageID=1922) Original File Name=_MG_2374.jpg

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• adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds; Mary and Joseph present  [Luke 2:16]
• Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood  [John 19:25-27]
• Pietà, 'Vesperbild', 'Marienklage': Christ, either with or without crown of thorns, mourned by Mary 
• the Annunciation: Mary, usually reading, is visited by the angel  [Luke 1:26-38]
• the Visitation  [Luke 1:39-56]

Martin Crampin and John Morgan-Guy, Imaging the Bible in Wales (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), Reproduction and Tradition: The Medieval World.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 330.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 213.

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 330.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 222.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales