Sir Galahad's Vision of the Holy Grail

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

Lower part of the left-hand light showing small detail of a horse.

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1924

Two-light window. Sir Galahad kneels before the grail.


designer: Walter Camm
firm/studio: T. W. Camm & Co.

Church of St Thomas a Becket, Wolvesnewton, Monmouthshire
south wall of the sanctuary

Designed by Walter Camm, the window was executed by Florence, Robert and Walter Camm at The Studio, Smethwick.
Part of the memorial to William Walker Hood of Tredean prepared by Camm & Co. It was paid for by his brother, James Hood. The subject was chosen in view of William Walker Hood's office as churchwarden, and ex-officio, his charge of the sacred vessels.

Details include the tree of the knowledge of good & evil; a sitting rabbit, symbolic of peace; the horse and dove are symbolic of the sanctity of the place.

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

 

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• the tree of knowledge of good and evil (whose fruit, usually apples or figs, brings death)  [Genesis 2:9, 17]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 218.

John Morgan-Guy, Similarities between Camm, Salusbury and Davies of the Bromsgrove Guild (Lampeter: 2006).

Martin Crampin and John Morgan-Guy, Imaging the Bible in Wales (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), The Victory of Good Over Evil: Saints and Soldiers.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London/Cardiff: 2000), p. 602.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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