Christian Symbols
© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin
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about 1968
Three-light window consisting of roundels containing symbols. Left-hand light: butterfly, wheat and grapes, cockerel; central light: the eye of God, dove, two fish, lilies, winged bull (symbol of Luke); right-hand light: heavenly crown, crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
size: 45 cm (width of each light)artist: Tim LewisChurch of St Luke, Cwmdare, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taffeast wall of the chancel
The windows are not leaded. (ObjectID=2228 ImageID=5533) Original File Name=Aberdare_DSC4187.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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- cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet)
- coin - money
- crown (symbol of sovereignty)
- crown of thorns - instruments of the Passion
- fishes
- Holy Ghost represented as a dove
- insects: butterfly
- lily
- ox (possibly with book) - symbol of St Luke [Revelation 4:7]
- the all-seeing eye, triangle with eye - symbol of God the Father
- the crowing cock - denial of Peter [Matthew 26:74-75; Mark 15:68-72; Luke 22:60-61; John 19:27]
- vine
Click here for other works at this siteClick here for other works connected to Tim LewisFurther readingMaurice Broady, 'Stained Glass Design in Wales' Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. 6 (new series) (2000), 163.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 134.
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.
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© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin
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