Eagle, Symbol of St John the Evangelist
detail from Virgin and Child with St Luke and St John

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales larger image

1906 Three windows in the chancel apse. Luke holds a book and a winged ox stands at his feet; Mary stands holding the infant Christ, and lilies; John holds a book and an eagle stands at his feet. technique: stained glass size: 44 cm (width of each light) firm/studio: C. E. Kempe Church of St Mary, Maestir, Ceredigion chancel apse Given in memory of Blanche, wife of John Charles Harford, who died August 1904.  (ObjectID=349 ImageID=228) Original File Name=_MG_0291.jpg

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• eagle (possibly with book) - symbol of St John  [Revelation 4:7]
• Madonna: Mary standing (or half-length), Christ-child close to her bosom 
• St John the Evangelist, apostle 
• St Luke the evangelist 

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 323.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 481.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales