The Entombment and the Resurrection

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1860 Two-light window. Two men lay Christ in the tomb with Mary and John looking on, and in the right-hand light Christ rises, with arms outstretched, soldiers cowering below and an angel with a hand on the side of the tomb. Patterned quarries above and below the scenes, with the Agnus Dei in the upper light. technique: stained glass size: 45 cm (width of each light) firm/studio: James Powell & Sons Church of St Andoenus, Mounton, Monmouthshire east wall of the chancel The window was retained from the earlier church and reset in 1880.  (ObjectID=4042 ImageID=7508) Original File Name=Mounton_DSC9286.jpg

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• Christ, usually holding a banner, arises from the grave; often combined with sleeping and/or frightened soldiers 
• Christ's entombment  [Matthew 27:59-61; Mark 15:46-47; Luke 23:53-56; John 19:39-42]

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London/Cardiff: 2000), p. 412.

Photo © Martin Crampin