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The Nativity
from Set of Windows Depicting the Birth of Christ and Noah's Ark

  The Nativity    from    Set of Windows Depicting the Birth of Christ and Noah's Ark

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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about 1977-1981

Set of eight cruciform windows with a star at the apex and scenes including the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, the Nativity, the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, the Flight into Egypt, Noah's Ark and animals.

size: 50 cm (width) [approx]
artist: John Petts

Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea
north east wall (used as a Sunday School room)

These windows were the last of the four sets of windows made for the church by the artist. The Nativity subjects were fitted 22 December 1977.


 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011

 

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Further reading

Alison Smith, 'Light, Colour and the Bible: The Stained Glass Windows of John Petts (1914-91)' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 229-31.

References

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 363.

Alison Smith, 'John Petts: Designer-Craftsman 1914-1991' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xix, no. 2 (1991–3), p. 227.

'Some Recent and Current Work - Wales' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xvi, no. 2 (1978–9), 55.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/3233 (accessed 19 March 2024)



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  The Nativity    from    Set of Windows Depicting the Birth of Christ and Noah's Ark

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