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Butterfly Window

  Butterfly Window

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1981

Two-light window showing the destruction of Swansea in 1941 and the rebuilding which followed. A butterfly overlays the scenes in both windows. Three lines rising in each light symbolise the Holy Trinity.


firm/studio: Glantawe Studios
artist: Kuni Kajiwara

Church of St Mary, Swansea
north wall of the north aisle, adjacent to the baptistry

Signed and dated with the name of the artist and the name and mark of Glantawe Studios.

Given in memory of Thomas and Maud Leeson Barlow.



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 08-02-2012

 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 296-7.

A Short Guide to the Stained Glass Windows in St. Mary's Parish Church Swansea (Swansea: The Friends of St. Mary's, 2001 (second edition)).

Mark Angus, Modern Stained Glass in British Churches (Oxford: Mowbray, 1984), pp. 100-1.

References

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 581.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 226.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2012.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/1799 (accessed 29 March 2024)


 

  Butterfly Window

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