Stations of the Cross

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about 1971 Set of stations of the cross as vertical window lights around the walls of the church. medium: stained glass and aluminium artist: Frank Roper Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire north, south and east walls of the nave The choice of colour would have been deeply influenced by the artist's wife, Nora Roper. Elsewhere the windows have been dated as 1972–3. The windows were originally commissioned by March 1970, and correspondence with the artist shows that he was working on them during that year, and they were still under way in November, by which time the cost had risen from 'about £40 a piece' to £50 each. Presumably, he finished them either by the end of the year, or early in 1971.  (ObjectID=356 ImageID=244) Original File Name=_MG_0456.jpg

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• Christ disrobed  [Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34; John 19:23-24]
• Christ meets Veronica, who has a cloth to wipe Christ's face - carrying of the cross 
• Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood  [John 19:25-27]
• descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross  [Mark 15:46; Luke 23:53; John 19:38]
• Pilate washing his hands (in innocence) - trial of Christ  [Matthew 27:24]
• Simon the Cyrenian compelled to help Christ to bear the cross  [Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26]
• the 14 Franciscan stations of the cross  [Matthew 27:; Mark 15:; Luke 23:; John 19:; John 18:28-40]
• the erection of the cross: Christ is nailed to the cross which lies on the ground  [Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:33]
• the second fall - Christ carrying the cross 

Peter Leech, The Religious Art of Frank Roper: An Introduction (Much Wenlock: RJL Smith & Associates, 2003), pp. 6-7.

Church Guide.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 352.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales