St Stephen and St Peter

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about 1870 Two-light window with standing figures, above scenes of the stoning of Stephen and an angel leading Peter from prison. An angel is found in the upper tracery light. technique: stained glass size: 56 cm (width of each light) firm/studio: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. designer: William Morris designer: Edward Coley Burne-Jones designer: Ford Madox Brown Church of St Llwchaiarn, Llanllwchaiarn, Powys south wall of the nave The same figure of Stephen, designed by Edward Burne-Jones, is included in one of the windows by the firm at Llandaff Cathedral, as well as several other churches (first used at Bradford Cathedral in 1864). The scene below is also to the design of Burne-Jones. The figure of Peter is by William Morris, while the scene below is by Ford Madox Brown, and is the only surviving version of this design.  (ObjectID=1472 ImageID=8501) Original File Name=Llanllwchaiarn_DSC7941A.jpg

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• St Peter, apostle and first bishop of Rome 
• St Stephen, deacon and (proto)martyr 
• the angel leads Peter past the sleeping guards - Peter persecuted in Jerusalem  [Acts 12:8-10]
• the stoning of Stephen; the witnesses lay down their clothes at Saul's feet  [Acts 8:54-60]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 122.

A. Charles Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1974), plates 320 and 321.

H. N. Oliver, Llanllwchaiarn Church and Parish (2001), pp. 65–6.

Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 178.

Photo © Martin Crampin