Genesis Window
1988
Colourful design across a three-light window, unified by a rainbow which runs across the whole window. Images of the moon and sun, a dove with an olive branch over the waters, fruit and wheat, illustrating the text of Genesis 8:22.
artist: Geoffrey Robinsonfirm/studio: Joseph Bell & SonChurch of St Tysoi, Llansoy, Monmouthshiresouth wall of the nave
Signed and dated by the artist.
Text: 'While the earth remaineth seed time and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease' (Genesis 8:22).
Given in memory of William Jones (died 1938) and his wife Maud Mary Jones (died 1956). (ObjectID=4062 ImageID=7559) Original File Name=Llansoy_DSC9323.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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Show more subjects- cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet)
- globe
- vine
- water (one of the four elements)
John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London/Cardiff: 2000), p. 334.
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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