David Playing the Harp for Saul and Solomon Supervising the Building of the Temple
detail from David and Solomon

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Detail showing the lower panels. larger image

1939 Two-light window with standing figures of David and Solomon. The lower panels depict David playing the harp for Saul and Solomon watching the building of the Temple. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. designer: James Hogan Church of St Peter, Lampeter, Ceredigion north wall of the chancel  (ObjectID=361 ImageID=261) Original File Name=_MG_0323.jpg

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• David as musician, usually playing the harp 
• David playing his harp before Saul  [1 Samuel 16:23]
• Solomon (not in biblical context) 
• the building of the temple of Solomon  [1 Kings 5-6:; 2 Chronicles 2-4:]

Martin Crampin and John Hammond, Stained Glass at the Church of St Peter, Lampeter (Aberystwyth: Sulien, 2017), pp. 22-3.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 232.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 480.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales