Car Di
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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about 1972
Coloured window with the words Car di (Welsh: Love thou).
size: 60 cm (height) [approx]artist: John PettsChurch of St Mary, Llandovery, Carmarthenshiresouth wall of the chancel
This small window was Petts' gift to the church, and occupies what is traditionally known as a 'Leper window' from its low position in the chancel wall. Petts has taken up the theme of the outcast/outsider in his choice of design and text, which for him summarized the teaching of Christ. A visiting member of the editorial staff of the New York Times, on seeing it, said it was 'the best inscription, and the best prescription, for living'.The text evokes many of the commandments, injunctions and sayings of Christ, and has no specific reference. (ObjectID=7 ImageID=9) Original File Name=DSCN6122.JPGRecord added by Martin Crampin, Additional contribution by John Morgan-Guy. Last updated on 21-09-2012
Click here for other works at this siteClick here for other works connected to John PettsFurther readingAlison Smith, 'John Petts: Designer-Craftsman 1914-1991' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xix, no. 2 (1991–3), pp. 217, 226.
Alison Smith, 'Light, Colour and the Bible: The Stained Glass Windows of John Petts (1914-91)' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), p. 227.
ReferencesThomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 292.
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. (with a contribution by John Morgan-Guy)
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