The Expulsion of Eve from Eden

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1926 Two-light window. Eve stands weeping in the right-hand light, while the angel guarding Eden with the flaming sword stands in the left-hand light. technique: stained glass size: 47 cm (width of each light) firm/studio: A. K. Nicholson Stained Glass Studios Church of St Gabriel, Brynmill, Swansea south wall of the south aisle (Lady Chapel) The text below Eve in a wreath reads 'It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.' (Genesis 3:15). The presence of this window in the Lady Chapel emphasises the role of Mary as the new Eve.  (ObjectID=4586 ImageID=8619) Original File Name=SwanseaStGabriel_DSC6498.jpg

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• God expels Adam and Eve from paradise and has the tree of life guarded by an angel with a flaming sword (Adam not present)  [Genesis 3:23-4]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 224.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 584.

Some Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1930), p. 79.

A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1939), p. 59.

Photo © Martin Crampin