Virgin and Child

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1935 Single-light window. Mary with the infant Christ in an oval medallion with a landscape behind, set on delicately decorated white glass quarries. Angels above and, with dedication, below. technique: stained glass size: 46 cm (width) designer: Ninian Comper Pentrefoelas Parish Church, Pentrefoelas, Conwy north wall of the nave The strawberry plant, Comper's signature, can be seen at the bottom. Given in memory of Revd Thomas William Roberts (died 1932). The design of the roundel is after Giovanni Bellini's Madonna and Child, 1480-90, at the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo.  (ObjectID=4723 ImageID=8921) Original File Name=Pentrefoelas_DSC9228B.jpg

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• Madonna: Mary standing (or half-length), Christ-child close to her bosom 

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 258.

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