Set of Windows with Symbols of the Virgin Mary

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales The lower lights in the set, with the statue of the Virgin and Child. larger image

1973 Set of seven cruciform windows including images of a crown (at the apex), the sword piercing Mary's soul with the crown of thorns, a six-winged creature, and the dove with small branch in its beak (returning to Noah's Ark), also lilies and a rosary. Each of the six lower windows has symbols set beneath a crown. technique: stained glass size: 50 cm (width) [approx] artist: John Petts Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea north west wall These windows were commissioned along with the sculpture of the Virgin and Child, also by John Petts.  (ObjectID=1056 ImageID=1831) Original File Name=_MG_4424.jpg

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• aids for prayer: rosary 
• crown (symbol of sovereignty) 
• Mary's heart pierced by a sword  [Luke 2:35]
• the dove returns with an olive-branch - story of Noah  [Genesis 8:11]

John 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.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales