To Thee all Angels Cry Aloud

 To Thee all Angels Cry Aloud

Photo © Martin Crampin

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about 1957
Two-light window with standing figures of angels. Seraphim above and the dove of the Holy Spirit at the top in the upper roundel. Symbols below show Michael's scales (the weighing of souls) and a crown and cross.

technique: stained glass

firm/studio: G. Maile & Son
designer: Arthur Walker

Church of All Saints, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan
south wall of the south aisle

Texts (above and below the main scene): 'To thee all angels cry aloud: the Heaven[s], and all the Powers therein.' (translated from the Ambrosian Hymn, the Te Deum).

A post-war replacement for a window commemorating Alfred William Flux-Dundas, who was vicar from 1919-27.





 

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Further reading

Martin Crampin, 'A Change of Direction: Modernism in the stained glass of the Diocese of Llandaff in the 1950s and 1960s' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xlii (2018), pp. 63–4.

References

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 247.




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