Christ the Light of the World

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1885 Single-light window depicting Christ holding a lantern, after the painting by William Holman Hunt. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Ward & Hughes Church of St Mary & St David, Flint, Flintshire south wall of the south aisle Signed 'Ward & Hughes London 1885'. Text: 'I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life'. The dedication at the bottom reads 'To the Glory of God and in memory of Margaret Bibby died 6th March 1885'. Margaret Bibby was the wife of Peter Bibby, who was a Church Warden and the builder of St David's Church in Oakenholt.  (ObjectID=4501 ImageID=8480) Original File Name=bibby.jpg

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• I am the light of the world' - sayings of Christ  [John 8:12; John 9:5]
• I stand at the door and knock': image derived from William Holman Hunt's 'The Light of the World'  [Revelation 3:20]

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 350.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 19.

Photo © Peter Bellis