Te Deum Laudamus
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
1954
Five-light window based on the Te Deum Laudamus with the risen Christ in front of the cross surrounded by angels with the archangels St Michael and St Gabriel either side. Below is the Lamb of God and figures of the Virgin Mary, St John the Baptist, St Peter, St James the Great, St Stephen?, St Martin, St David and another bishop. The dove of the Holy Spirit is uppermost in the tracery, with the symbols of the Four Evangelists below. Details also show the pillars of Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, and the Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist at Brecon.
size: 350 cm (width)
firm/studio: A. K. Nicholson Stained Glass Studios
designer: Gerald Edward Roberts Smith
Church of St James, Uplands, Swansea
east wall of chancel
Inscription above the cross reads 'Thou art the king of Glory O Christ.' A series of texts below the figures reads: 'The fellowship of the prophets, the Glorious company of the apostles, the noble army of martyrs, the holy church throughout the world' and under the Agnus Dei: 'We praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.' The Virgin Mary holds the text 'The virgin shall conceive and bear a son.' An amazing sensory experience, with the circle of angels with trumpets and incense, surrounding the risen Christ crowned as king in glory.
Information from Arthur Morris via church website.
Both windows by the Studio in this church date from nearly twenty years after Nicholson's death, and are the work of G.E.R. Smith, who subsequently ran the firm.
Five-light window based on the Te Deum Laudamus with the risen Christ in front of the cross surrounded by angels with the archangels St Michael and St Gabriel either side. Below is the Lamb of God and figures of the Virgin Mary, St John the Baptist, St Peter, St James the Great, St Stephen?, St Martin, St David and another bishop. The dove of the Holy Spirit is uppermost in the tracery, with the symbols of the Four Evangelists below. Details also show the pillars of Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, and the Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist at Brecon.
size: 350 cm (width)
firm/studio: A. K. Nicholson Stained Glass Studios
designer: Gerald Edward Roberts Smith
Church of St James, Uplands, Swansea
east wall of chancel
Inscription above the cross reads 'Thou art the king of Glory O Christ.' A series of texts below the figures reads: 'The fellowship of the prophets, the Glorious company of the apostles, the noble army of martyrs, the holy church throughout the world' and under the Agnus Dei: 'We praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.' The Virgin Mary holds the text 'The virgin shall conceive and bear a son.' An amazing sensory experience, with the circle of angels with trumpets and incense, surrounding the risen Christ crowned as king in glory.
Information from Arthur Morris via church website.
Both windows by the Studio in this church date from nearly twenty years after Nicholson's death, and are the work of G.E.R. Smith, who subsequently ran the firm.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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- 'Salvator Mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet
- Te Deum Laudamus (Ambrosian Hymn)
- angels
- Brecon Cathedral
- Holy Ghost represented as a dove
- James the Great, apostle
- lamb bearing cross or banner, 'Agnus Dei' - symbol of Christ
- St David
- St John the Baptist
- St Martin(us), bishop of Tours
- St Peter, apostle and first bishop of Rome
- St Stephen, deacon and (proto)martyr
- temple of Solomon
- the Archangel Gabriel
- the Archangel Michael
- the four symbols of the evangelists, 'the apocalyptic beasts' [Revelation 4:6-8]
- upright figures of Mary without the Christ-child
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References
John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 585.
A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1955), p. 63.
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
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