Solomon Directing the Building of the Temple

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1862 Two-light window. technique: stained glass size: 45 cm (width of each light) : Michael and Arthur O'Connor Church of St James and St Elidyr, Stackpole Elidor, Pembrokeshire south wall of the south transept Signed and dated by the firm. Given by the inhabitants of the Stackpole Estate, in recognition of the First Lord Cawdor, patron of the church. The figure of Solomon has been described as that of Lord Cawdor. However, a very similar figure in a window by the same firm from 1864 at All Saints, Margaret Street, London, has remarkably similar features, and must therefore cast doubt on the authenticity of this attribution.  (ObjectID=713 ImageID=2770) Original File Name=_MG_3739.jpg

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• Solomon supervising the work - the building of the temple of Solomon 
• the building of the temple of Solomon  [1 Kings 5-6:; 2 Chronicles 2-4:]

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 458.

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