Hannah, Samuel and Eli

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about 1919 Two-light window depicting Hannah with her son Samuel as a child and Eli with scrolls. Panels below show the child Samuel and Samuel being presented in the Temple. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. designer: Liversedge designer: Herbert Cole designer: Ernest Penwarden designer: Read Church of St Mary, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire north wall of the nave The figure of Eli is by Read, and Hannah and Samuel is by Penwarden. Part of the design for the window was also used in Winchester. Inscriptions: 'Speak Lord for thy servant heareth' (1 Samuel 3:9). 'And brought him unto the House of the Lord' (1 Samuel 1:24). Given in memory of Hannah Sarah (died 1892), wife of T.G. Bennett, and his grandfather, George Bennett (died 1888).  (ObjectID=277 ImageID=907) Original File Name=_MG_1592.jpg

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• Eli 
• Hannah 
• Samuel 
• Samuel in the temple at Shiloh presented to Eli by Hannah  [1 Samuel 1:24-28]

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 186.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales