Courage and Victory

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about 1915 Two-light window with standing armoured figures representing Courage and Victory. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Percy Bacon Brothers Church of St Peter, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire north wall of the nave Dedication: 'In loving memory of Paul Chancourt Girardot 2nd Lieut of the 52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who fell 16th of September 1914 at Soupir-sur-Aisne. Aged 18 years. Only child of the late Lieut Col. John Francis Girardot, JP, of the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry, late of CarColston Hall Notts and of Mary his wife.' They also lived at Trevaughan, Carmarthen. Paul Chancourt Girardot was also commemorated in another window by Burlison & Grylls at Holy Trinity, Kensington.  (ObjectID=4898 ImageID=9404) Original File Name=CarmarthenStPeter_DSC2487B.jpg

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• Courage, Bravery, Valiance, Manliness (abstract concept represented by clothed male figure) 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 198.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass at the Church of St Peter, Carmarthen (Aberystwyth: Sulien Books, 2018), pp. 20–1.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 130.

Some Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1930), p. 12.

Photo © Martin Crampin