Musical Angels
detail from The Transfiguration
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
1884
A five-light window depicting Christ with Moses, Elijah and three apostles surrounded by musical angels. Above a rainbow, the hand of God points down with angels holding the text 'This is my beloved Son. Hear Him.'
designer: John Pollard Seddon
firm/studio: S. Belham & Co.
designer: Frederic Shields
Church of St Padarn, Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion
east wall of the chancel
Designed by J.P. Seddon with the assistance of the painter Frederic James Shields. Painted by H.G. Murray. The window was installed by Roderick Williams, according to a report in the local newspaper, the Cambrian News (May 1884).
A five-light window depicting Christ with Moses, Elijah and three apostles surrounded by musical angels. Above a rainbow, the hand of God points down with angels holding the text 'This is my beloved Son. Hear Him.'
designer: John Pollard Seddon
firm/studio: S. Belham & Co.
designer: Frederic Shields
Church of St Padarn, Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion
east wall of the chancel
Designed by J.P. Seddon with the assistance of the painter Frederic James Shields. Painted by H.G. Murray. The window was installed by Roderick Williams, according to a report in the local newspaper, the Cambrian News (May 1884).
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 14-12-2011
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Further reading
Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 496.
ReferencesMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 138.
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
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