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Christ Saves Peter from Drowning

  Christ Saves Peter from Drowning

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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about 1862

Two-light window. Jesus walks on the water holding his hand out to St Peter, while other disciples look on from the boat.

size: 65 cm (width) [approx]
firm/studio: William Wailes

Fisherman's Chapel, Angle, Pembrokeshire
east wall

Stylistically the window would accord with a date of 1862, when Elizabeth Mirehouse provided for the restoration of the chapel.

Inscription: Lord help me for I perish. The passage is Matthew 14:24-33. The words"for I perish" have here been added to Peter's cry in v.30.


An appropriate image for a Fishermen's chapel. The figure of Christ is seen walking on the water, reaching out to the sinking Peter. (Matthew 14:30) As with the stilling of the storm window in the same chapel, the message is the necessity of faith, even in the face of adversity.

 
Record added by Charlene Crampin, edited by Martin Crampin. Additional contribution by John Morgan-Guy. Last updated on 06-06-2023

 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2023. (record added by Charlene Crampin, with a contribution by John Morgan-Guy)
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  Christ Saves Peter from Drowning

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