The Armies of Heaven

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1873, with fragments from about 1500 Four-light window depicting the armies of heaven at war. The central image is surrounded by eight angels each holding one of the Beatitudes. The figure on a white horse at the centre rides beneath the text 'Faithful and true', from Revelation 19:11. There are fragments of medieval glass in the tracery, including fragments of angels and figures of Peter and Barbara. technique: stained glass size: 48 cm (width of each light) [approx] firm/studio: Heaton, Butler & Bayne Church of All Saints, Gresford, Wrexham south wall of the nave Inscription: "And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean". (Revelation 19:14).  (ObjectID=980 ImageID=2494) Original File Name=_MG_5678.jpg

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• the battle between the beast (Antichrist), the false prophet, and the horseman with his army  [Revelation 14:19-21]
• the horseman whose name was Faithful and True (Christ) with his heavenly army  [Revelation 19:11-16]
• war 

Mostyn Lewis, Stained Glass in North Wales up to 1850 (Altrincham: John Sherratt and Son Ltd, 1970), p. 38.

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 172.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 220.

Photo © Martin Crampin