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Creation Window

  Creation Window

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

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2000

Two-light window including details representing each of the seven days of creation. Among these details are the earth, planets and stars, waters, birds, animals and sea creatures, and a multicultural family. In the upper cinquefoil an open Bible represents the seventh day.


artist: Janet Hardy

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

Signed and dated by the artist.

Texts: "O Lord how manifold are thy works' 'The earth is full of thy riches' (Psalm 104:24).

Given by Roland Jones in memory of his parents Janet Theresa and Hubert Rowland. The commandment 'Honour thy father and mother' is given alongside the dedication.



 
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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, 2011.
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