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Christ with Bread and Fish

  Christ with Bread and Fish

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin

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1951

Single-light window. Standing figure of Christ holding a loaf of bread and pointing above, with two fish below cooking on a fire. In a panel below three fishermen haul in fish caught in a net.


firm/studio: Celtic Studios

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

Mark of Celtic Studios in the bottom corner.

Given in memory of Violet Alice Lewis by Edith Mary Catherine Richards 18 Sept 1951.


According to Geoffrey Orrin, the window represents Christ's meal by the shore after the Resurrection.

 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 01-10-2020

 

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Further reading

Geoffrey R. Orrin and F.G. Cowley, A History of All Saints' Church, Oystermouth (1990), pp. 70–1.


 

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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/1825 (accessed 28 March 2024)



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© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin



 
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