The Ascension

  The Ascension

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1870
Five-light window with the Ascension and scenes from the Gospels in roundels below: the Nativity, the Last Supper and Christ carrying the cross. Angels in the air beside Christ and in the tracery.

technique: stained glass
size: 250 cm (width of whole)
firm/studio: Ward & Hughes

Church of St Mary, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire
east wall of the chancel

Signed H. Hughes, London 1870.

Text: I ascend unto my Father and your Father and my God and your God.
Dedication: To William Shipley Conwy (died 1869) from his friends poor and rich.





 

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References

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 425.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 20.




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  The Ascension

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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