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Mural of Biblical Scenes
On Panels Mounted As a Screen in Decorated Borders

St. Gwynog's Church, Aberhafesp, U.K.
Dedicated to the church by E. B. Proctor, fecit, Easter 1893

Pyrography on wood panels and borders

Photograph by Susan Millis

With the kind permission of the Rector of St. Gwynog's, Aberhafesp



Mural of Biblical Scenes, partial view
Panels Mounted As a Screen in Decorated and Calligraphed Borders

St. Gwynog's Church, Aberhafesp, U.K.
Dedicated to the church by E. B. Proctor, fecit, Easter 1893

Pyrography on wood panels and borders

Photograph by Susan Millis

With the kind permission of the Rector of St. Gwynog's, Aberhafesp



Mural of Biblical Scenes,
Detail showing the panel "Suffer the Children to Come Unto Me."

Panels Mounted As Screen in Decorated Borders
Church of St. Gwynog, Aberhafesp, U.K.
Dedicated to the church by E. B. Proctor fecit Easter 1893

Pyrography on wood panels and borders

Photograph by Susan Millis

With the kind permission of the Rector of St. Gwynog's, Aberhafesp



Dedication Panel,
Detail showing the inscription:

"TO THE HONOUR AND GLORY
OF GOD, THIS PANELLING
WAS DEDICATED. EASTER 1893
E. B. Proctor. fecit."

One of the panels mounted as a screen in decorated borders
Church of St. Gwynog, Aberhafesp, U.K.

Pyrography on wood panels and borders

Photograph by Susan Millis

With the kind permission of the Rector of St. Gwynog's, Aberhafesp



Thanks to pyrographic artist and conservator Susan M. Millis, BA (Hons) Cons. & Rest., who visited the church of St. Gwynog in Aberhafesp, we have the above images and the following description:
"These amazing panels—mounted in a screen that covers most of the west wall—were dedicated to the church in 1893 by E. B. Proctor, the main benefactor, who resided at Aberhafesp Hall and owned much of the surrounding land and buildings. It is fully documented in the church records and there are said to be other pyrographs there, too. The tooling indicates many different techniques, which suggest that the screen panels may have been commissioned from different local craftsmen. Indeed, if it was executed by one person, it would have taken a very long time to complete. The wood is pine and the technique is crude, obviously executed with hot pokers. At some stage in its history, it has received at least one coat of a wood dye or stain."
See reference to this mural on p.2 of the article Pyrograffiti 30 of the September–October 2004 issue of the WOM.


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