Lifeboat Window

1977

Four-light window showing lifeboatmen with boats in the water and semi-abstract scenes below.

designer: Tim Lewis

Church of All Saints, Oystermouth, Swansea
north aisle (window number: nVII)

Signed with Glantawe Studios mark.

The window commemorates the tragic loss of all the crew of the Mumbles lifeboat in a storm on the night of the 23 April 1947.

Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 14-11-2019

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 289-90.

Maurice Broady, 'Stained Glass Design in Wales' Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. 6 (new series) (2000), 163.

Mark Angus, Modern Stained Glass in British Churches (Oxford: Mowbray, 1984), pp. 86-7.

Geoffrey R. Orrin and F.G. Cowley, A History of All Saints' Church, Oystermouth (1990), p. 72.

References

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 484.

Judith Neiswander and Caroline Swash, Stained and Art Glass, pp. 370â€“1.

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2019.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/1822 (accessed 18 December 2024)

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