Christ with the Four Evangelists
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
Five-light window with Christ in Majesty flanked by full length figures of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, with angels above. Scenes and figures below show St David, the baptism of a child, the Virgin and Child, a couple taking communion and St Augustine.
firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd
designer: E. Liddall Armitage
Church of St Mary, Swansea
east wall of the chancel
Cartoons prepared by Colwyn Morris.
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- 'Salvator Mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet
- baptism, christening ceremony - the first of the seven sacraments
- Madonna: Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in her lap
- St Augustine, bishop of Hippo
- St David
- the Archangel Gabriel
- the Archangel Michael
- the Eucharist - the fourth of the seven sacraments
- the four evangelists together (author portraits)
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Further reading
A Short Guide to the Stained Glass Windows in St. Mary's Parish Church Swansea (Swansea: The Friends of St. Mary's, 2001 (second edition)).
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 581.
Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 226.
A Directory of Stained Glass Windows (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1958), p. 82.
A Directory of Stained Glass Windows (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1961), p. 82.
A Directory of Stained Glass Windows (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1966), p. 85.
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