Angels Fighting a Two-headed Dragon
detail from The Church Triumphant
© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin
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1978
Three-light window with scenes from the Resurrection and the Last Judgement. The central light depicts the resurrected Christ with gonfalon over cowering soldiers. with saints and apostles around and below Christ seated in majesty. In the left-hand light three warrior angels fight a two-headed dragon outside a city, above a depiction of the disciples receiving the Holy Sprit at Pentecost. In the left-hand light the lamb of God stands in front of a walled city, with four rivers proceeding from the ground below; beneath, an angel greets the three women at the empty tomb. Roundels above the shorter left and right-hand lights lights depicting a ship with a red cross and the phoenix rising from the flames.
firm/studio: Celtic StudiosChurch of St Mary, Burry Port, Carmarthenshirewest wall of the nave
Signed with the firm's mark and dated 1978.
Dedication: 'Donated by Parishioners to mark the centenary of St Mary's Church, Burry Port. 1877-1977.' (ObjectID=2250 ImageID=5663) Original File Name=Burry Port_DSC3897.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 16-10-2020
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Show more subjectsThomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 124.
'Some Recent and Current Work - Wales' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xvi, no. 2 (1978–9), 53.
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, 2020.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/2250 (accessed 22 November 2024)
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© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin
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