Six Winged Creature
from Set of Windows with Symbols of the Virgin Mary
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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1973
Set of seven cruciform windows including images of a crown (at the apex), the sword piercing Mary's soul with the crown of thorns, a six-winged creature, and the dove with small branch in its beak (returning to Noah's Ark), also lilies and a rosary. Each of the six lower windows has symbols set beneath a crown.
size: 50 cm (width) [approx]artist: John PettsChurch of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swanseanorth west wall
These windows were commissioned along with the sculpture of the Virgin and Child, also by John Petts. (ObjectID=3277 ImageID=1834) Original File Name=_MG_4471.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 PettsReferencesJohn 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.
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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