The Ascension
detail from The Ascension with Nativity and the Risen Christ Meeting Mary Magdalene

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Central light. larger image

about 1944 Three-light window. Peter (holding keys) and John (beardless) seem to be prominent below Christ's feet as he ascends in the taller, central, light. The other two scenes are in the outer lights. technique: stained glass artist: Christopher Charles Powell Church of St Tanwg, Harlech, Gwynedd east wall of the chancel Signed Christopher C. Powell Highgate. Given by the Vicar Revd. Robert Parker-Jones and his wife in memory of their only son Revd. F. J. Parker-Jones (1917-1943), a curate in Sidcup, Kent, who drowned in the River Medway trying to save a young boy. The faculty for the window was approved in June 1944, although whether the window was installed in the same year, before the end of the war, is uncertain.  (ObjectID=1403 ImageID=2732) Original File Name=_MG_0101A.jpg

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• Mary Magdalene meets the Risen Christ; 'Noli me tangere'  [John 20:14-17]
• Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)  [Luke 2:1-7]
• the Ascension  [Luke 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-11]

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales