The Flight into Egypt
from Set of Windows Depicting the Birth of Christ and Noah's Ark
about 1977-1981 Set of eight cruciform windows with a star at the apex and scenes including the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, the Nativity, the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, the Flight into Egypt, Noah's Ark and animals.technique: stained glass size: 50 cm (width) [approx] artist: John Petts Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea north east wall (used as a Sunday School room) These windows were the last of the four sets of windows made for the church by the artist. The Nativity subjects were fitted 22 December 1977. |
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- flight into Egypt and miracles during the journey [Matthew 2:14-15]
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Further reading
Alison Smith, 'Light, Colour and the Bible: The Stained Glass Windows of John Petts (1914-91)' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 229-31.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 363.
Alison Smith, 'John Petts: Designer-Craftsman 1914-1991' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xix, no. 2 (1991–3), p. 227.
'Some Recent and Current Work - Wales' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xvi, no. 2 (1978–9), 55.
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