Kneeling Knight with an Angel
detail from Receiving the Crown of Life with St George and St Martin

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1919 Three-light window. A kneeling figure in armour offers up his sword and receives the crown of life from an angel. Standing figures of the two soldier saints in the outer lights. Two further angels below with the text 'Faithful unto death'. technique: stained glass firm/studio: A. L. Moore & Son Church of St Cynllo, Llangynllo, Ceredigion west wall of the nave Given in memory of Marteine Kemes Arundell Lloyd (hence the appearance of his patron, St Martin, and not just because he is a soldier saint), son of Sir Marteine Lloyd, Bart. He was killed at the Battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916.  (ObjectID=1649 ImageID=6002) Original File Name=Llangynllo_MG_1590A.jpg

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• crown (symbol of sovereignty) 
• receiving prize or crown of honours 
• St George 
• St Martin(us), bishop of Tours 

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 527.

Photo © Martin Crampin