St Elizabeth
detail from The Virgin Mary and St Elizabeth

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1904 Two-light window with standing figures. technique: stained glass size: 45 cm (width of each light) firm/studio: Lavers & Westlake Church of St David, Blaenporth, Ceredigion south wall of the chancel Signed and dated by the firm in the left-hand light. Given in memory of Mary Jones, nurse to the family at Tyllwyd from 1861-1904. Although the window depicts only the two figures without any background, the window implies the biblical story in which the pregnant Mary goes to visit her older cousin Elizabeth (Luke 1:39-56).  (ObjectID=4610 ImageID=8697) Original File Name=Blaenporth_DSC4872_53A.jpg

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• Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist 
• upright figures of Mary without the Christ-child 

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 438.

Photo © Martin Crampin