The Annunciation to the Shepherds and Ascension

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about 1856 Two-light window. An angelic figure in the clouds announces the birth of Christ to three shepherds below, offering a clever compositional parallel to the scene of Christ ascending in the right-hand light with four of his disciples shown below. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Ballantine & Allan Church of St Eurgain and St Peter, Northop, Flintshire north wall of the north aisle Given in memory of Lt. Col. Howard (died 1856) by his widow.  (ObjectID=2147 ImageID=5275) Original File Name=Northop_DSC2971.jpg

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• The annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air  [Luke 2:8-14]
• the Ascension  [Luke 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-11]

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 407.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 5.

Photo © Martin Crampin