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Dragon
detail from St Michael Overcoming the Dragon

  Dragon    detail from    St Michael Overcoming the Dragon

Photo © Martin Crampin

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1938

Single-light window with standing figure of Michael. He holds a sword and scales in which a child outweighs a devil, and at his feet is a fiery dragon. Town walls are also depicted below...

size: 43 cm (width)
artist: Martin Travers

Church of St Cynfelyn, Llancynfelyn, Ceredigion
south wall (window number: sIII)

Signed and dated with the artist's monogram.

Given in memory of James Henry Edward Holford (1873-1936).



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 19-05-2020

 

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    Further reading

    Michael Yelton, Martin Travers: His Life and Work (Spire Books, 2016), p. 336.

    References

    Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 223.

    'The Lowndes & Drury Archive' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xli (2017), 212.

    Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 499.


     

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    Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2020.
    https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/3745 (accessed 6 September 2025)



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      Dragon    detail from    St Michael Overcoming the Dragon

    Photo © Martin Crampin



     
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