Tracery Lights
detail from East Window

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1868 A complex five-light window. The Crucifixion with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene occupies the central light, flanked by two scenes from the parable of the Good Samaritan, and scenes with monks and a bishop in the outer lights. Further scenes in the tracery include the adoration of the Virgin and Child and acts of mercy. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Alexander Gibbs & Co. Church of St Dunawd, Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham east wall of the chancel Given by public subscription in memory of the rector of Bangor in 1868. The two outer lights appear to depict the British bishops consulting a hermit prior to their meeting with Augustine (left), and the their meeting with Augustine (right) who remained seated to greet them, as recounted in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. This incited the anger of the British bishops and ultimately the death of hundreds of monks at the monastery of Bangor-on-Dee.  (ObjectID=4304 ImageID=8299) Original File Name=BangorIsyCoed_DSC6332A.jpg

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• a Samaritan tending the wounds of the traveller - the good Samaritan  [Luke 10:33-34]
• crucified Christ with Mary, John, and Mary Magdalene  [Matthew 27:45-58; Mark 15:33-45; Luke 23:44-52; John 19:25-38]
• the traveller is attacked by robbers - parable of the good Samaritan  [Luke 10:30]

D. R. Thomas, The History of the Diocese of St Asaph (Oswestry: Caxton Press, 1908-1913), vol. I, p. 432.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 118, 144.

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 321.

Photo © Martin Crampin