St Philip the Apostle
detail from Ascension with St Anne, St Agnes, St Edward the Confessor and St Philip
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
Lower right-hand panel of the window.
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1952
Five-light window with two small rose lights and one large rose light above: the small left rose light contains the Llandaff diocesan coat of arms, whilst the right contains a shield with the emblem of St Margaret (a dragon with a cross lodged in its throat). The large rose light depicts Christ in majesty seated on a rainbow amidst eight rosettes containing ecclesiastical symbols, including the four symbols of the evangelists.
firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd.designer: Rupert MooreChurch of St Margaret, Roath, Cardiffeast wall of the chancel
The window replaces a former window damaged during the Second World War. The cowled monk of James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) is shown in the lower right-hand corner of the window, below St Philip.
St Anne, St Agnes, St Edward the Confessor and St Philip were the patron saints of the daughter churches of the parish of Roath in 1952. (ObjectID=369 ImageID=363) Original File Name=_MG_0665.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin, Additional contribution by John Morgan-Guy. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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Show more subjectsDiane A. Walker, A Guide to the Parish Church of St Margaret, Roath (Cardiff: c. 1990), p. 15.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 300.
A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1955), p. 66.
'Obituary: C. Rupert Moore ARCA FMGP (1904–1982)' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xviii, no. 1 (1983–4), 101.
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. (with a contribution by John Morgan-Guy)
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/369 (accessed 24 November 2024)
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