The Ascension

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about 1877 Three-light window. Christ ascends with angels with Mary and John below and other disciples in the left and right-hand lights. technique: stained glass firm/studio: probably Heaton, Butler & Bayne Church of St Mary, Burry Port, Carmarthenshire east wall of the chancel The window is dated and attributed to Hardman's in the Buildings of Wales volume for Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. However, the style of the window is closer to the work of Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Given in memory of George Richards Elkington and his wife Mary Auster by their five sons.  (ObjectID=2217 ImageID=5653) Original File Name=Burry Port_DSC3881.jpg

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• Christ ascends into heaven; apostles (and Mary) beneath  [Acts 1:9-11; Luke 24:50-51]

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 124.

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin