Paul's Shipwreck
detail from St Simon, St Peter, St Jude and Scenes from the New Testament

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales larger image

1874 Three-light window with standing figures with panels below depicting the miraculous draught of fish, Christ walking on the water and St Paul's shipwreck. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. designer: William Morris designer: Edward Coley Burne-Jones designer: Ford Madox Brown Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff, Cardiff north wall of the north aisle Designs by Ford Madox Brown were used for all three of the scenes below as well as St Simon and St Jude, while Edward Burne-Jones designed the central figure of St Peter. Angels in the tracery by William Morris.  (ObjectID=1643 ImageID=3250) Original File Name=_MG_6815.jpg

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• Christ saves Peter from drowning  [Matthew 14:28-31]
• the apostle Jude Thaddaeus; possible attributes: book, club, halberd, scroll 
• the apostle Peter, first bishop of Rome 
• the apostle Simon Zelotes (or Simon the Canaanite); possible attributes: book, saw, scroll 
• the miraculous draught of fishes (before the Resurrection) on the Lake of Gennesaret (Sea of Galilee); James and John helping to bring in the nets  [Luke 5:1-11]
• the shipwreck on the coast of Malta (Melita) - Paul's journey to Rome  [Acts 27:14-44]

Nevil A. James, The Stained Glass of Llandaff Cathedral (Llandaff: Llandaff Cathedral Shop Committee, 1997), p. 7.

William Waters, Saints and Symbols: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2021), pp. 76–9.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 121.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 253.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 224.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales