The Judgement of Solomon
detail from Elijah Challenges the People of Israel and the Judgement of Solomon

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1909 Four-light window with two main scenes. In the left-hand lights of the window Elijah addresses a small crowd on Mount Carmel, while in the right-hand lights of the window Solomon, enthroned, judges between the two women who claim the child. Four scenes with female figures below, symbolising law, justice, mercy and faith. technique: stained glass firm/studio: James Powell & Sons designer: Gerald P. Hutchinson Church of St Eurgain and St Peter, Northop, Flintshire west wall of the nave From designs by Hutchinson, Mann and James Hogan. Texts: 'How long halt ye between two opinions' (1 Kings 18:21); 'Give her the living child she is the mother thereof' (1 King 3:27). Text in the tracery: 'Be strong and of a good courage' (a phrase repeated three times in both Deuteronomy 31 and Joshua 1)  (ObjectID=2149 ImageID=5279) Original File Name=Northop_DSC2975.jpg

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• Elijah addressing the people on Mount Carmel - Elijah defies the priests of Baal  [1 Kings 18:21-24]
• the judgement of Solomon  [1 Kings 3:16-28]

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. 15.

Photo © Martin Crampin