The Burning of Jerusalem
detail from Christ Enthroned in the New Jerusalem with Scenes from the Old Testament
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
Upper left-hand light.
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about 1919
Three-light window. Seated figure of Christ, depicted beardless, with angels in the centre light. At the left is the burning of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and Jeremiah and Nebuzaradan below. In the right-hand light the return to Jerusalem above Cyrus and Sheshbazzar.
designer: Henry HolidayChurch of St John the Baptist, Newton, Swanseasouth wall
Window commissioned to commemorate the burning of Ypres in the First World War.
Angels above hold the text: 'The creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God' (Romans 8:21). (ObjectID=1636 ImageID=3238) Original File Name=_MG_7998.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 07-11-2012
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Show more subjectsMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 204.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 474.
D. Charles Davies, The History of the Ancient Church situate at Newton Porthcawl in the Parish of Newton-Nottage (Porthcawl: 1938), p. 35-6.
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, 2012.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/1636 (accessed 27 December 2024)
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