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Saints
detail from Christ Enthroned in the New Jerusalem with Scenes from the Old Testament

  Saints    detail from    Christ Enthroned in the New Jerusalem with Scenes from the Old Testament

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

Lower central light.

larger image

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 Holiday

Church of St John the Baptist, Newton, Swansea
south 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).



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 07-11-2012

 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 204.

References

John 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.


 

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Martin 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 29 March 2024)



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  Saints    detail from    Christ Enthroned in the New Jerusalem with Scenes from the Old Testament

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales



 
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