The Ascension
from The Resurrection and Ascension

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about 1863 Two single-light windows. In the left-hand light Christ stands with the banner, in a mandorla, a single frightened soldier below. In the right-hand light the half-figure of Christ emerges above the clouds, with the disciples crowded below. Angels in decorative panels above and below. technique: stained glass size: 40 cm (width of each light) [approx] firm/studio: Clayton & Bell Pentrefoelas Parish Church, Pentrefoelas, Conwy west wall of the nave Given in memory of William Wynne of the Coldstream Guards, who died in 1863.  (ObjectID=4721 ImageID=8916) Original File Name=Pentrefoelas_DSC9223B.jpg

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• Christ, usually holding a banner, arises from the grave; often combined with sleeping and/or frightened soldiers 
• the Ascension  [Luke 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-11]

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 258.

D. R. Thomas, The History of the Diocese of St Asaph (Oswestry: Caxton Press, 1908-1913), vol. II, p. 351.

Photo © Martin Crampin