East window, Scenes from the Life of Christ (early 16th century), Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Dulas, Anglesey.

Photo: Peter Hildebrand

East window, detail from Scenes from the Life of Christ (early 16th century), Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Dulas, Anglesey.

Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Llanwenllwyfo, Anglesey

Address

Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Dulas, Anglesey LL70 9LZ

Recommended by

Martin Crampin (10)

Highlight

Scenes from the Life of Christ, east window

Artist, maker and date

Flemish artists, 16th and 17th centuries

Reason for highlighting

One of the most important collections of early Renaissance stained glass in Britain. Presented by Sir Arundell Neave and inserted in 1877, the glass had been collected by his grandfather Sir Thomas Neave.

The sixteenth-century work is thought to have originated at the Great Cloister of the Charterhouse, Leuven. The glass in the tracery of the east window is from the memorial chapel of Pope Adrian VI at the Pope’s College, Leuven, depicting both Charles V and Adrian VI.

The scenes in the east window include examples of both the style of the Charterhouse windows (probably 1520s) and the early seventeenth-century work at the church.

Other comments

Further Reading:
Hidden Gems: Stained Glass at the Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Anglesey by J. O. Hughes, Catherine Hughes and Avril Lloyd (Aberystwyth: Sulien, 2016).
Stained Glass in Wales – Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Dulas

Highlighted dates at this location

16th century, 17th century (Go to date search)

All artists mentioned at this location

Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque glaziers