Broken Chain
from Set of Windows in the Baptistry Chapel
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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1968
Set of eight cruciform windows. The windows include a pierced hand, a dove, a foot passing though waters with a serpent, a fountain, a broken chain with a star amid the waters, hands tied with a serpent, and a sword. All the windows are coloured blue, and appear to be set in water, appropriate to the waters of baptism.
size: 50 cm (width) [approx]artist: John PettsChurch of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swanseanorth west wall
The colouring of these windows is very similar to that employed in the side windows for Brighton and Hove New Synagogue, also made in the late 1960s, while the blues continued to be used in windows such as his Peace Window at St Mary, Fishguard, in 1984. (ObjectID=3262 ImageID=1815) Original File Name=_MG_4433.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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Click here for other works at this siteClick here for other works connected to John PettsFurther readingAlison Smith, 'Light, Colour and the Bible: The Stained Glass Windows of John Petts (1914-91)' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 229-30.
ReferencesJohn 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.
Directory of Master Glass Painters (London: Oriel Press (The British Society of Master Glass-Painters), 1972), p. 78.
Click to show suggested citation for this recordMartin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
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