Scenes from the Life of Christ

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1905 Four-light window with scenes including the Annunciation, Crucifixion, Deposition and the Resurrection. Further figures and angels in the tracery lights. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Clayton & Bell Church of St Illtyd, Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan east wall of the chancel The window was given in memory of Ernest Vachell by his widow. The four figures in the lower tracery are listed in the church guide as the saints Samson, Illtud, David and Patrick. The figures of Samson and David are however the biblical characters, the former is unusual and not nimbed, whereas David, with crown and harp, is nimbed. A serpent around the lower part of Patrick's staff seems to confirm this identification and the attributes for Illtud are appropriate. Could the biblical figures of Samson and David have been added by the London firm in error?  (ObjectID=632 ImageID=8281) Original File Name=Llanilltyd_DSC9129.jpg

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• angel(s) in or at the empty tomb of Christ  [Matthew 28:2-3; Mark 16:4-5; Luke 24:4; John 20:12]
• Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood  [John 19:25-27]
• descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross  [Mark 15:46; Luke 23:53; John 19:38]
• the Annunciation: Mary, usually reading, is visited by the angel  [Luke 1:26-38]
• the risen Christ (with wounds, but without crown of thorns), sometimes holding the cross or a banner 

Vivian Kelly, St Illtud's Church Llantwit Major (1993), p. 14.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 408.

Photo © Martin Crampin