Gabriel detail from The Annunciation - image from Stained Glass in Wales

Gabriel
detail from The Annunciation

Photo © Martin Crampin

about 1937

Two-light window. Mary kneels in the left-hand light, the dove of the Holy Spirit descending, whie Gabriel stands in the right-hand light.

artist: Henry Gustave Hiller

Church of St Michael, Caerwys, Flintshire
south wall of the nave (window number: sV)

The window is a late work by H.G. Hiller. It is very similar to an earlier design of the same scene in the collections of the Walker Art Gallery, dated around 1926.

Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 23-01-2024

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p 228.

User contributed comments

The Caerwys PCC discussed the design for this window and voted to apply for a faculty on August 16 1937. However, the company of H G Hiller & Company was dissolved in 1932 and Hiller's obituary (which is not without error) has Hiller retiring from business to Anglesey in 1936. But the window does look like Hiller's work!
Submitted by: Peter Jones (2012-08-20 11:51:09)

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2024.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/2178 (accessed 6 September 2025)

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