St Potentinus with Abbot John IV
detail from Saints and Donors
1530-1542, reset in the nineteenth century
Two-light window with four rectangular panels, set in decorative frames. Top left: a tonsured monk is shown kneeling before a nimbed mitred figure and a further armoured figure behind, holding a shield and flag with a white cross on a red ground; top right: a tonsured abbot is shown kneeling before the Virgin and Child and a further armoured figure behind, who holds a flag with a white cross; below left: a tonsured monk kneels before a seated female saint holding a sword; below right: a standing male saint presents a tonsured kneeling abbot.
size: 68 cm (width of each light); width of figurative panels 54 cmChurch of St Cadoc, Aberpergwm, Neath Port Talboteast wall of the chancel
Previously assumed to be Flemish, the panels have recently been identified by Roger Rosewell as originating from Steinfeld Abbey, near Cologne.
Since these photographs were taken (2010) the glass has been conserved. (ObjectID=3795 ImageID=6902) Original File Name=Aberpergwm_DSC6611.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 02-05-2012
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Show more subjectsMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 61.
Andrew Renton, 'Discovering Pre-1700 Stained Glass in South Wales' Vidimus, vol. 34 (November 2009).
David King and Roger Rosewell, 'New Steinfeld Discoveries: Special Supplement' Vidimus, vol. 35 (December 2009).
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 360.
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, 2012.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/3795 (accessed 26 December 2024)
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 Photo © Martin Crampin
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