Christian Symbols
© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin
about 1968
Three-light window consisting of roundels containing symbols. Left-hand light: butterfly, wheat and grapes, cockerel; central light: the eye of God, dove, two fish, lilies, winged bull (symbol of Luke); right-hand light: heavenly crown, crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
size: 45 cm (width of each light)
artist: Tim Lewis
Church of St Luke, Cwmdare, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff
east wall of the chancel
The windows are not leaded.
Three-light window consisting of roundels containing symbols. Left-hand light: butterfly, wheat and grapes, cockerel; central light: the eye of God, dove, two fish, lilies, winged bull (symbol of Luke); right-hand light: heavenly crown, crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
size: 45 cm (width of each light)
artist: Tim Lewis
Church of St Luke, Cwmdare, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff
east wall of the chancel
The windows are not leaded.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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- cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet)
- coin - money
- crown (symbol of sovereignty)
- crown of thorns - instruments of the Passion
- fishes
- Holy Ghost represented as a dove
- insects: butterfly
- lily
- ox (possibly with book) - symbol of St Luke [Revelation 4:7]
- the all-seeing eye, triangle with eye - symbol of God the Father
- the crowing cock - denial of Peter [Matthew 26:74-75; Mark 15:68-72; Luke 22:60-61; John 19:27]
- vine
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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.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 134.
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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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