The Four Evangelists

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1936 Four-light window with standing figures of each evangelist, and four scenes below: Christ calling Matthew, Peter dictating to Mark, Luke writing the Book of the Acts of the Apostles with Paul in prison, Christ calling James and John. The arms in the two roundels above are of the Diocese of St Asaph and the Hanmer family. technique: stained glass size: 40 cm (width of each light) [approx] firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt Church of St Chad, Hanmer, Wrexham east wall of the chancel Signed by the firm. Given by Sir Edward Hanmer, Bart., of Bettisfield Park in 1936 to commemorate the restoration of the chancel.  (ObjectID=678 ImageID=4982) Original File Name=_MG_7150.jpg

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• calling of Matthew (Levi), the tax-collector (usually with money lying on the table and people paying taxes)  [Matthew 9:9; Mark 2:14; Luke 5:27-28]
• calling of the apostles James and John, the sons of Zebedee  [Matthew 4:21-22; Mark 1:19-20; Luke 5:10-11]
• Paul in prison visited by Luke - missionary journeys of Paul 
• St Luke writing his gospel, St Paul present 
• St Mark writing the Gospel, Peter present 
• the four evangelists together (author portraits) 

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 361.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales