The Sower
1966
Single-light window with a young man sowing seed. Following the text of the parable, birds are shown coming to eat the seed, and some is shown falling on stony, or thorny, ground.
firm/studio: Celtic Studiosartist: John EdwardsChurch of St Michael, Llandre, Ceredigionnorth wall of the nave
Signed with the mark of the firm. The window was designed, cartooned and painted by John Edwards, and a similar window was installed in the Church of St David, Neath, in the following year.
Given in memory of John Thomas Morgan (1885-1964), and also of Griffith Evans Morgan (1895-1918), who died in the First World War. (ObjectID=4387 ImageID=8221) Original File Name=Llandre_DSC0771A.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 01-08-2012
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Show more subjects- birds
- cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet)
- sowing - agriculture
Maurice Broady, A Vision Fulfilled: The story of Celtic Studios and Swansea's architectural glass tradition (Swansea: West Glamorgan Archive Service, 2010), pp. 60, 111.
ReferencesThomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 503.
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.
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