St Catherine of Siena Receives the Crown of Thorns from Christ detail from St Teresa and St Catherine

St Catherine of Siena Receives the Crown of Thorns from Christ
detail from St Teresa and St Catherine

Photo © Martin Crampin

1933

Two-light window. Standing figures of Teresa and Catherine with small scenes below.

size: 33 cm (width of each light)
firm/studio: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd
designer: Richard King

Church of St David, Pantasaph, Flintshire
south wall of the south aisle (west end) (window number: sIX)

Signed Harry Clarke Dublin. Ruth Sheehy has attributed the design to Richard King.

Given in memory of Mary Anne Rathe and her God Child Catherine, by members of the Rathe family. The window appears as order 1768, 20 July 1933, in the order book of the firm now at Trinity College Library (TCD Dublin MS 11182/174). A bronze tablet was also commissioned from the firm. Cost £84.4.10.

Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 16-05-2025

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Further reading

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 414.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 6.

References

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 238.

Ruth Sheehy, The Life and Work of Richard King: Religion, Nationalism and Modernism (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020), p. 390.

User contributed comments

There is a watercolour design for this stained glass window in the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library at Trinity College Dublin. You can see it in the Digital Collections website: http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?folder_id=2675&pidtopage=MS11182-174_1&entry_point=1

and also in the Digital Repository of Ireland: https://repository.dri.ie/catalog/5999v181p
Submitted by: Marta Bustillo (2015-09-21 16:59:15)

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2025.
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