Detail of roses and stream
detail from Apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes to Bernadette

  Detail of roses and stream    detail from    Apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes to Bernadette

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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about 1945
Single-light window. Virgin Mary with rosary against a background of a grotto, with Bernadette at the left of the foreground, holding a lighted taper. Clogs, sticks, roses and stream on the ground beside Bernadette.

technique: stained glass
size: 68 cm (width)
firm/studio: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Ltd

Church of the Holy Name, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
western end of the nave, opposite the entrance.

Inscription: 'Pray for the donor, M A Mac Donald'.
Perhaps the work of William Dowling. A very similar design made as a two-light window may be found at The Church of the Assumption, Wexford.





 

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Further reading

Sarah Boss, 'Biblical images of Mary in the visual tradition of Wales' (London: SPCK, 2008), p. 172.

References

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 186.




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  Detail of roses and stream    detail from    Apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes to Bernadette

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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