Reconstructed Crucifixion window - Neufchâtel-en-Bray

walwyn Fri, 09/24/2010 - 20:44
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This reconstructed window is of six panels in two lights, is in the style of the C14 stained glass at Chartre. The original glass was destroyed when the center of Neufchatel was bombed in June 1940.

 

neufchatel-en-bray Laying the body in the tomb

neufchatel-en-bray St. Veronica

neufchatel-en-bray Jesus meets his mother

 

The panels in one light show Jesus meeting his mother, being given a cloth to wipe his face by St Veronica, and Jesus being taken down from the cross.

 

neufchatel-en-bray Resurection

neufchatel-en-bray crucifixion

neufchatel-en-bray Crown of Thorns

 

The three panels in the other light has panels of the Transfiguarion (which seems out of sequence), Crucifixion, and of the Crown of Thorns being placed on Jesus head.