Prophets and Sibyls
detail from The Instruction of the Virgin Mary
1926
Two-light window. Mary sits reading in the left-hand light, while her mother Anne stands in the right-hand light. Figures in the tracery lights of Isaiah and Ezekiel between the sibyls of Cumana and Erythraea.
size: 47 cm (width of each light)firm/studio: A. K. Nicholson Stained Glass StudiosChurch of St Gabriel, Brynmill, Swanseasouth wall of the south aisle (Lady Chapel)
The large book is open at the prophesy of Isaiah in which he speaks of the conception of a virgin (7:14). A shorter part of the same verse is on the scroll held by the prophet Isaiah in the east window, made in the previous year. According to Virgil the Cumaean sibyl (a female prophet from ancient Greece) foretold the coming of a saviour. (ObjectID=2337 ImageID=8617) Original File Name=SwanseaStGabriel_DSC6494.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 10-03-2015
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Show more subjectsMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 224.
John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 584.
Some Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1930), p. 79.
A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1939), p. 59.
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, 2015.
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