Christ with the Four Evangelists

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

about 1959 Five-light window with Christ in Majesty flanked by full length figures of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, with angels above. Scenes and figures below show St David, the baptism of a child, the Virgin and Child, a couple taking communion and St Augustine. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd designer: E. Liddall Armitage Church of St Mary, Swansea east wall of the chancel Cartoons prepared by Colwyn Morris.  (ObjectID=1601 ImageID=3753) Original File Name=_MG_4521.jpg

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• 'Salvator Mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet 
• Augustine, bishop of Hippo 
• baptism, christening ceremony - the first of the seven sacraments 
• Madonna: Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in her lap 
• St David 
• the Archangel Gabriel 
• the Archangel Michael 
• the Eucharist - the fourth of the seven sacraments 
• the four evangelists together (author portraits) 

A Short Guide to the Stained Glass Windows in St. Mary's Parish Church Swansea (Swansea: The Friends of St. Mary's, 2001 (second edition)).

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 581.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 226.

A Directory of Stained Glass Windows (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1958), p. 82.

A Directory of Stained Glass Windows (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1961), p. 82.

A Directory of Stained Glass Windows (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1966), p. 85.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales