Children with Guardian Angels

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1902 Two-light window with standing figures of angels, one cradling an infant and the other with a child standing alongside. technique: stained glass size: 45 cm (width of each light) artist: Henry Holiday Church of St Matthew, Buckley, Flintshire west window of baptistry Text: 'C.G. Matri. Filia A.W.' Given in memory of Catherine Gladstone (1812-1900), dedicated in 1902 by her daughter Alice Wickham. The standing child bears a palm frond, normally the symbol of martyrdom. The second angel carries a babe in arms. The reference would seem to be to the Holy Guardian Angels.  (ObjectID=93 ImageID=757) Original File Name=_MG_1129.jpg

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Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 170-72.

J. Clifford Jones, Buckley Parish Church 1822-1972 (Buckley: Buckley St Matthew's Churchwardens and Parochial Church Council, 1974), p. 42.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 11.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales