The Good Shepherd

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about 1910 Three-light window. A shepherd carries a lamb on his shoulders, with sheep grazing and angels holding texts at either side. technique: stained glass size: 44 cm (width of each light) artist: Henry Holiday Church of St Matthew, Buckley, Flintshire west wall of the north aisle Text: 'He shall feed his flocks. He shall gather the lambs with his arm.' (Isaiah 40:11). Dedication: 'Given by his wife and daughter in blessed memory of Harry Drew Shepherd of Souls: Laus Deo'. Harry Drew (died 1910), the son-in-law of William Gladstone, was vicar of Buckley, and oversaw the rebuilding of the church between 1897 and 1905. The image of the shepherd here follows closely upon the verse from Isaiah carried by the child angel.  (ObjectID=89 ImageID=9912) Original File Name=Buckley_DSC4250-71A.jpg

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• Christ as Good Shepherd  [John 10:1-18]

J. Clifford Jones, Buckley Parish Church 1822-1972 (Buckley: Buckley St Matthew's Churchwardens and Parochial Church Council, 1974), p. 43.

Martin O'Kane, 'Biblical Art from Wales: From Text to Image' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 62-3.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 171.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 11.

Photo © Martin Crampin