A Soldier Receiving the Crown of Life with the Christian Warrior and King David
 | about 1900 Three-light window.technique: stained glass firm/studio: Robert J. Newbery Church of St Peter, Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire west wall of the nave Signed by the firm. Text beneath right-hand figure: 'I have kept the ways of the Lord' (Psalm 18:21 and 2 Samuel 22:22). Given by the rector in memory of his son, Ralph Paynter Williams, killed in the Boer War, 25 August 1900. The left-hand figure appears to be St George, but he has no halo or dragon at his feet, and therefore seems to represent the Christian Warrior, or the Full Armour of God as described in Ephesians. The central panel with Christ presenting the crown of life to the kneeling soldier in medieval armour is of a design that the firm used elsewhere, for example at Glasbury, also as a Boer War memorial. The right-hand figure is probably David from the Old Testament, as a warrior, identifiable from the text used below from Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22:22. |
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