Elijah
detail from The Transfiguration with Saints
Photo © Martin Crampin
1939
Five-light window with Christ between Moses and Elijah above Peter, James and John. Standing figures of David (left) and another saint, also finely dressed as a bishop and holding a church and the palm of a martyr (right), with their arms below. Angels above and the dove of the Holy Spirit descending.
artist: Christopher Charles Powell
Church of St Mary, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire
east wall of the chancel
Text in the tracery: 'Blessed are they that see God' 'They shall be white as snow'.
Five-light window with Christ between Moses and Elijah above Peter, James and John. Standing figures of David (left) and another saint, also finely dressed as a bishop and holding a church and the palm of a martyr (right), with their arms below. Angels above and the dove of the Holy Spirit descending.
artist: Christopher Charles Powell
Church of St Mary, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire
east wall of the chancel
Text in the tracery: 'Blessed are they that see God' 'They shall be white as snow'.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 07-09-2020
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- the Transfiguration: Moses and Elijah appear on either side of Christ on Mount Tabor [Matthew 17:1-13; Mark 9:2-13; Luke 9:28-36]
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Further reading
Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 225.
ReferencesThomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 215.
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2020.
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