The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, St John and St Mary Magdalene
from Scenes from the Life of Christ

  The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, St John and St Mary Magdalene    from    Scenes from the Life of Christ

Photo © Martin Crampin

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1915
The sanctuary windows comprise five two-light windows. The subjects are the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Magi, the Crucifixion, the three women at the empty tomb, and the risen Christ meeting Mary Magdalene in the garden. The Crucifixion scene shows Christ on the cross in the left-hand light, with Mary Magdalene at the foot of the cross, and his mother Mary is depicted with John in the right-hand light.

technique: stained glass
size: 46 cm (width of each light) [approx]
firm/studio: C.E. Kempe & Co Ltd

Christ Church, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire
east wall of the sanctuary apse

Text over the scene: 'Greater love hath no man than this' (John 15:13).




 

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References

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), pp. 323-4.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 133.




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  The Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, St John and St Mary Magdalene    from    Scenes from the Life of Christ

Photo © Martin Crampin


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