Peter's Commission
from Scenes from the Gospels

  Peter's Commission    from    Scenes from the Gospels

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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about 1865-1870
South side of the chancel: Annunciation and standing figure of St Peter, the Nativity and the Presentation in the Temple; north side standing figure of St Paul and the wedding at Cana. Sanctuary: Peter's commission and Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus with St John at the Last Supper, and the calling of Peter and Andrew.

medium: oil
technique: painting


Church of the Holy Trinity, Pont-ar-gothi, Carmarthenshire
sanctuary

Unlike the murals in the main body of the church, these are more richly coloured and appear to have been finished. The murals were conserved by Lloyd Haslam Conservation in 2006–7.




 

Other works associated with this work

  Annunciation and St Peter    from    Scenes from the Gospels   St Paul    from    Scenes from the Gospels   The Wedding at Cana    from    Scenes from the Gospels   The Calling of Peter and Andrew    from    Scenes from the Gospels

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Further reading

Philip Johnes, Interview with Philip Johnes (Pontargothi: 7 March 2007).

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 366-7.

John Morgan-Guy, 'Fiery angels and country parsons' Icon News, vol. 20 (2009), 18-19, 22.




  Peter's Commission    from    Scenes from the Gospels

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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