Although of Welsh descent, Jonah Jones was born in Washington, County Durham and moved to Wales after the war. There he briefly worked with John Petts and then at Eric Gill's workshops in 1949. He set up his own workshop at Tremadoc on the Lleyn Peninsula. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1955 and did important commissions for Ratcliffe College Chapel, Leicester and Ampleforth College in 1960 and the Gerard Manley Hopkins window at Loyola Hall near Liverpool. He also did portrait busts and carved inscriptions, including examples at Westminster Abbey.
Obituary in the Guardian.
Details of forthcoming projects publicising the work of the artist are available at the Scene & Word website.
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| St Patrick artist: Jonah Jones 1962 Church of St Patrick, Newport west wall | |
| Windows artist: Jonah Jones 1968 Church of the Resurrection of Our Saviour, Morfa Nefyn, Gwynedd | |
| Lady Chapel Windows artist: Jonah Jones 1968 Church of the Resurrection of Our Saviour, Morfa Nefyn, Gwynedd Lady Chapel | |
| The Baptism of Christ artist: Jonah Jones about 1970 Church of St Joseph, Denbigh, Denbighshire baptistry |
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