Christ as the Man of Sorrows
detail from The Ascension and the Crucifixion

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1859 Seven-light window with the scenes of the Ascension and Crucifixion across the five central lights. Seated figures of Peter and Paul uppermost in the tracery lights, with standing figures of the four evangelists below them. Four figures of Christ in the outer lights: as Good Shepherd, with the Eucharistic Chalice, holding an orb and bound with the crown of thorns as the Man of Sorrows. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Thomas Baillie Church of St Nicholas, Montgomery, Powys east wall of the chancel  (ObjectID=483 ImageID=9878) Original File Name=Montgomery_DSC0553_52A.jpg

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• Christ ascends into heaven; apostles (and Mary) beneath  [Acts 1:9-11; Luke 24:50-51]
• the crucifixion of Christ: Christ's death on the cross; Golgotha  [Matthew 27:45-58; Mark 15:33-45; Luke 23:44-52; John 19:25-38]
• the four evangelists together (author portraits) 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 108.

'Montgomery Church' Montgomeryshire Collections, vol. 67 (1979), 13.

Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: 1979), p. 166.

Photo © Martin Crampin