Chi-rho
detail from Virgin and Child and St David

  Chi-rho    detail from    Virgin and Child and St David

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

Left-hand light

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1964
One of two three-light windows. Mary with the Christ child laid in a manger below a star in the centre light. Abstract designs at either side with dove and Chi-Rho.

technique: stained glass

artist: Leonard Charles Evetts

Church of All Saints, Porthcawl, Bridgend
north wall of the north chapel (Chapel of St David)

Inscription running across the two windows: 'The Altar and Windows in this Chapel are given to the Glory of God by Evan Edward Davies in Loving Memory of his Wife Edith Hannah Davies who died on 18th September 1962'. The other window depicts St David.

Further windows by Evetts were made for the choir vestry. The artist was suggested for the commission by Rollo Charles.





 

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References

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 529.

Leonard Evetts: Master Designer (Newcastle-on-Tyne: 2001), p. 195.




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  Chi-rho    detail from    Virgin and Child and St David

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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