Crucified Christ
detail from The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and St John

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1924, with fifteenth century fragments Five-light window. Christ on the cross is shown flanked by Mary and John, and also Archbishop Baldwin and Gerald of Wales. technique: stained glass artist: Horace Wilkinson Church of St Mary, Cardigan, Ceredigion east wall of the chancel Signed and dated with the maker's mark. Surviving fragments of fifteenth century glass, extremely rare for the region, have been set in the upper tracery lights. They were temporarily exhibited by the artist at the Art Workers Guild. Although Gerald of Wales may be found depicted in several churches in Wales, the depiction of Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury, with whom he travelled through Wales in 1188, is much less common.  (ObjectID=3802 ImageID=7016) Original File Name=Cardigan_DSC2782A.jpg

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• Baldwin of Forde - Archbishop of Canterbury 
• Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood  [John 19:25-27]
• Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis) 

Martin Crampin, 'Remnants of a Glittering Treasure: Thomas Johnes's Stained Glass at Hafod' Vidimus, vol. 100 (2016).

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 217.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 447.

Photo © Martin Crampin