Butterfly Window
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
Shows the two windows by Kuni Kajiwara in the context of the baptistry, with George Pace's iron font canopy of 1972.
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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 Studiosartist: Kuni KajiwaraChurch of St Mary, Swanseanorth 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. (ObjectID=1799 ImageID=3780) Original File Name=_MG_4538.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 08-02-2012
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Show more subjectsMartin 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.
ReferencesJohn 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.
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.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/1799 (accessed 21 November 2024)
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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