Lifeboat Window

1977

Four-light window showing lifeboatmen with boats in the water and semi-abstract scenes below.

designer: Tim Lewis

Church of All Saints, Oystermouth, Swansea
north aisle (window number: nVII)

Signed with Glantawe Studios mark.

The window commemorates the tragic loss of all the crew of the Mumbles lifeboat in a storm on the night of the 23 April 1947.

Cartoons for the window can be found on the Swansea Stained Glass Archive catalogue.

Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 11-02-2025

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Further reading

Maurice Broady, 'Stained Glass Design in Wales' Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. 6 (new series) (2000), 163.

Geoffrey R. Orrin and F.G. Cowley, A History of All Saints' Church, Oystermouth (1990), p. 72.

References

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 289–90.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 484.

Judith Neiswander and Caroline Swash, Stained and Art Glass, pp. 370–1.

Mark Angus, Modern Stained Glass in British Churches (Oxford: Mowbray, 1984), pp. 86–7.

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2025.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/1822 (accessed 22 February 2025)

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