Decorative Quarries
detail from East Window

Photo © Martin Crampin Detail of the lower right-hand light. larger image

1461-1483, restored in or after 1864 Five-light window with four figures either side of the Crucifixion. The Virgin and Child is depicted above, and an angel with a censer, and a kneeling cleric, are also shown in tracery lights. Quarries in the lower halves of the main lights. technique: stained glass size: 33 cm (width of each light) Church of St Ust and St Dyfrig, Llanwrin, Powys east wall of the chancel Parts of the figures are replacements, and the quarry pattern has been repeated below by the restorer. The prominent use of the white rose en soleil for the ground behind the figures suggests the date of the Yorkist reign of Edward IV from 1461-83. The pattern is found in Wales elsewhere at Old Radnor.  (ObjectID=3843 ImageID=7372) Original File Name=Llanwrin_DSC4565A.jpg

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• Christ on the cross on Golgotha (alone, without bystanders)  [Matthew 27:45-58; Mark 15:33-45; Luke 23:44-52; John 19:25-38]
• Crucified Christ suffering (with crown of thorns)  [Matthew 27:33-58; Mark 15:22-45; Luke 23:33-52; John 19:17-38]
• Madonna: Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in her lap 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 31, 35, 36.

Peter Lord, The Visual Culture of Wales: Medieval Vision (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), p. 178.

Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), p. 78.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 227.

Photo © Martin Crampin