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St Basil and St Nicholas

  St Basil and St Nicholas

Photo © Martin Crampin

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about 1946

Two-light window with standing figures. Basil holds a book with the dove of the Holy Spirit descending. Nicholas is depicted as a bishop with a boy who holds a boat.


firm/studio: A. K. Nicholson Stained Glass Studios
artist: Gerald Edward Roberts Smith

Church of the Holy Trinity, Aberaeron, Ceredigion
north wall of the nave

Given in memory of Revd E. Basil Herbert, vicar of the parish from 1928-1943.

A further work by the studio may be found nearby at Aberarth.


The dove descending on the ear of Basil is reminiscent of the iconography of St David.

 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 12-11-2020

 

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References

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 393.


 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2020.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/2287 (accessed 29 March 2024)


 

  St Basil and St Nicholas

Photo © Martin Crampin



 
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