The Annunciation
from Set of Windows Depicting the Birth of Christ and Noah's Ark
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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about 1977-1981
Set of eight cruciform windows with a star at the apex and scenes including the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, the Nativity, the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, the Flight into Egypt, Noah's Ark and animals.
size: 50 cm (width) [approx]artist: John PettsChurch of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swanseanorth east wall (used as a Sunday School room)
These windows were the last of the four sets of windows made for the church by the artist. The Nativity subjects were fitted 22 December 1977. (ObjectID=3238 ImageID=1787) Original File Name=_MG_4462.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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Click here for other works at this siteClick here for other works connected to John PettsFurther readingAlison Smith, 'Light, Colour and the Bible: The Stained Glass Windows of John Petts (1914-91)' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 229-31.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 363.
Alison Smith, 'John Petts: Designer-Craftsman 1914-1991' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xix, no. 2 (1991–3), p. 227.
'Some Recent and Current Work - Wales' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xvi, no. 2 (1978–9), 55.
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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