Christ in Majesty
detail from Te Deum
Photo © Martin Crampin
1925
Five-light window. Christ seated in Majesty in the centre light between the archangels Gabriel and Michael and the Agnus Dei below. Symbols of the four evangelists above the archangels, and standing figures of Peter, Isaiah, Paul and Stephen in the outer lights. Angels in the tracery lights, while below are the four Latin fathers and the four Eastern fathers.
size: 42 cm (width of each light) [approx]
firm/studio: A. K. Nicholson Stained Glass Studios
Church of St Gabriel, Brynmill, Swansea
east wall of the chancel
Texts in the outer lights from the Te Deum.
The window was given in memory of John Rees Davies.
Five-light window. Christ seated in Majesty in the centre light between the archangels Gabriel and Michael and the Agnus Dei below. Symbols of the four evangelists above the archangels, and standing figures of Peter, Isaiah, Paul and Stephen in the outer lights. Angels in the tracery lights, while below are the four Latin fathers and the four Eastern fathers.
size: 42 cm (width of each light) [approx]
firm/studio: A. K. Nicholson Stained Glass Studios
Church of St Gabriel, Brynmill, Swansea
east wall of the chancel
Texts in the outer lights from the Te Deum.
The window was given in memory of John Rees Davies.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 21-11-2023
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- 'Salvator Mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet
- angels
- Te Deum Laudamus (Ambrosian Hymn)
- the four evangelists together (author portraits)
- the four Greek (Eastern) Fathers of the Church together: Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Chrysostom and Athanasius the Great
- the four Latin (Western) Fathers of the Church together: Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine and Gregory the Great.
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Further reading
Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 223-4.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 584.
Some Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1930), p. 79.
A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1939), p. 59.
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2023.
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