St Michael Overcoming the Dragon

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1938 Single-light window with standing figure of Michael. He holds a sword and scales in which a child outweighs a devil, and at his feet is a fiery dragon. Town walls are also depicted below... technique: stained glass size: 43 cm (width) artist: Martin Travers Church of St Cynfelyn, Llancynfelyn, Ceredigion south wall Signed and dated with the artist's monogram. Given in memory of James Henry Edward Holford (1873-1936).  (ObjectID=3745 ImageID=6502) Original File Name=Llancynfelin_DSC1793A.jpg

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• dragon (large fabulous serpent, sometimes with wings and legs) 
• the Archangel Michael 

Michael Yelton, Martin Travers: His Life and Work (Spire Books, 2016), p. 336.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 223.

'The Lowndes & Drury Archive' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xli (2017), 212.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 499.

Photo © Martin Crampin