Symbols from Revelation

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1956 Eight-light rose window. Includes the four creatures from Revelation 4, adopted as the four symbols of the evangelists, and the Agnus Dei at the centre. technique: stained glass firm/studio: William Morris & Co (Westminster) designer: Frederick W. Cole St Davids Cathedral, St Davids, Pembrokeshire west wall of the north aisle One of a pair of rose windows in the west wall of the cathedral. They are dated 1957 in the Directory of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, published in 1966.  (ObjectID=504 ImageID=1118) Original File Name=_MG_1989.jpg

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• heaven represented as a city  [Revelation 21:2; Revelation 21:10-27]
• lamb bearing cross or banner, 'Agnus Dei' - symbol of Christ 
• the four symbols of the evangelists, 'the apocalyptic beasts'  [Revelation 4:6-8]
• the four winds  [Revelation 7:1]

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 414.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 223.

A Directory of Stained Glass Windows (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1966), p. 36.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales