West Window

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Looking down the nave towards the window. larger image

1972 technique: stained glass artist: John Petts Church of St Mary, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire west wall In memory of Major William Edmund Logan Stewart and his wife, and given by their daughter Mary Elizabeth Halliday. Petts' 1965 window in the chancel was given in memory of their son, and again Mrs Halliday contributed to the design. According to Mr David Gealy, the sinking sun strikes through the central sun of this west window, the coloured light moving progressively through the nave and chancel, finally settling on the altar cross and 'setting it on fire'. Petts thereby achieved a profound linkage between creation-Son (sun) of Righteousness-Glory.  (ObjectID=3 ImageID=2) Original File Name=DSCN6115.JPG

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• The Heavens declare the Glory of God  [Psalms 19:1-6]

Alison Smith, 'John Petts: Designer-Craftsman 1914-1991' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xix, no. 2 (1991–3), pp. 221, 226.

Alison Smith, 'Light, Colour and the Bible: The Stained Glass Windows of John Petts (1914-91)' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 226-7.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 292.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales