The Ascension

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin larger image

1935 Five-light window with Christ ascending in the sky with angels, the eleven disciples and Mary beneath, situated ouside of a walled town. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Shrigley & Hunt Christ Church, Prestatyn, Flintshire east wall of the chancel Signed by the firm. Text: 'By thy Glorious Resurrection & Ascension Good Lord Deliver us.' Given by various donors in memory of members of the Lyne family, Meredith Jones Hughes (vicar of the parish from 1908-1932) and by parishioners 'for the completion of this church.'  (ObjectID=2115 ImageID=5169) Original File Name=Prestatyn_DSC4264.jpg

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• angels 
• Christ ascends into heaven; apostles (and Mary) beneath  [Acts 1:9-11; Luke 24:50-51]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 227.

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 418.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 16.

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin