The New Jerusalem

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1923 Large rectangular window with a scene showing a group of people below, and above two people being shown into the heavenly city by an angel, with further angels kneeling. The city is shown in a landscape on a hill. The scene is set within a decorative canopy at the centre of the window. technique: stained glass size: 120 cm (width) firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd designer: Ernest Penwarden Church of St Peter Ad Vincula, Pennal, Gwynedd south wall of the nave Dedication: 'A thankoffering to God for the life and work of Frank Gott of Talgarth 21 Dec. 1858 - 3 Aug. 1920. The scene is reminiscent of the scene depicting the saved from Fra Angelico's Last Judgement, of about 1431.  (ObjectID=3753 ImageID=6464) Original File Name=Pennal_DSC1719A.jpg

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• angels 
• heaven represented as a city  [Revelation 21:2; Revelation 21:10-27]
• the blessed are brought to heaven - Last Judgement 

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 681.

Photo © Martin Crampin