Scenes from the Youth of Christ

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1898 Four-light window with four scenes, each across two of the lights. Top left: the Adoration of the Magi, and top right the Presentation in the Temple. Below left: Christ with the Doctors of the Law, and below right: the Holy Family in the Carpenter's Shop. Small figures of David and Deiniol in the centre tracery lights. technique: stained glass size: 38 cm (width of each light) firm/studio: Lavers & Westlake Church of St Mary and St Beuno, Whitford, Flintshire east wall of the north aisle Signed and dated by the firm. Given in memory of Edward, second baron Mostyn, and his wife Lady Harriot Margaret, by their children and grandchildren.  (ObjectID=4861 ImageID=9345) Original File Name=Whitford_DSC1281-71A.jpg

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• adoration of the kings: the Wise Men present their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh)  [Matthew 2:11]
• Christ's dispute with the doctors in the temple  [Luke 2:46-50]
• Joseph with the Christ-child (and Mary) in his carpenter's workshop - daily life in Nazareth 
• presentation of the Christ-child in the temple, usually Simeon and Anna present  [Luke 2:22-39]

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 455.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 13.

Photo © Martin Crampin