Dove
from Set of Windows with Symbols of the Virgin Mary

  Dove    from    Set of Windows with Symbols of the Virgin Mary

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1973
Set of seven cruciform windows including images of a crown (at the apex), the sword piercing Mary's soul with the crown of thorns, a six-winged creature, and the dove with small branch in its beak (returning to Noah's Ark), also lilies and a rosary. Each of the six lower windows has symbols set beneath a crown.

technique: stained glass
size: 50 cm (width) [approx]
artist: John Petts

Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea
north west wall

These windows were commissioned along with the sculpture of the Virgin and Child, also by John Petts.




 

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References

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 363.

Alison Smith, 'John Petts: Designer-Craftsman 1914-1991' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xix, no. 2 (1991–3), p. 227.




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  Dove    from    Set of Windows with Symbols of the Virgin Mary

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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