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Virgin and Child
detail from Virgin and Child with St Illtud

  Virgin and Child    detail from    Virgin and Child with St Illtud

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin

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1949

Two-light window with standing figure of Mary holding the Christ-child, and Illtud, with hawk and spear. Upper pentafoil contains dove of the Holy Spirit within crown of thorns and vine leaves.


firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd.

Church of St Mary, Burry Port, Carmarthenshire
south wall of the south aisle

Text: 'Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' (John 15:13).

Given in memory of the men from Burry Port who gave their lives in the Second World War.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 21-11-2023

 

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References

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 124.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2023.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/2252 (accessed 28 November 2024)



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  Virgin and Child    detail from    Virgin and Child with St Illtud

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin



 
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