Musical Angels

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1883 Two-light window with four seated angels playing different instruments, with texts from the Beatitudes. Lilies amid vines above. technique: stained glass size: 39 cm (width of each light) firm/studio: C.E. Kempe Church of All Saints, Newbridge-on-Wye south wall of the nave The texts with the angels are 'Blessed are the pure in heart', 'for they shall see God' (Matthew 5:8). The text is given once in the left-hand light, and once in the right-hand light. The window was given in memory of Henry Venables (1872-6), and is contemporary with the sanctuary windows.  (ObjectID=4959 ImageID=9577) Original File Name=Newbridge-on-Wye_DSC7554A.jpg

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Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 333.

Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 378.

Photo © Martin Crampin