Nails, Pincers and Hammer
detail from The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

early sixteenth century, restored in 1877 Crucifixion scene at the centre of a five light-window. The figure of Christ hangs on the cross high above Mary and John at either side. Roundels depicting the instruments of the passion are at the top of the lights at each side. technique: stained glass restorer: Joseph Bell Church of St Asaph and St Cyndeyrn, Llanasa, Flintshire east wall of the south nave Four figures formerly flanked the scene, and were moved to the east window of the north nave in 1877 and heavily restored in such a way as to make it difficult to discern how much glass is original.  (ObjectID=2346 ImageID=6408) Original File Name=Llanasa_DSC8566.jpg

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• Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood  [John 19:25-27]
• the instruments of the Passion and the five wounded limbs 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 8, 33.

Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), pp. 12, 52-3.

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 383.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 220.

Malcolm Seaborne, 'Victorian and Later Stained Glass in Flintshire Churches' The Journal of the Flintshire Historical Society, vol. 35 (1999), 121.

Photo © Martin Crampin