Christ
detail from Christ with St Peter and St John

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Detail of the central light. larger image

1877 Three-light window. Depicts Christ, St John the Evangelist with the chalice and St Peter holding a key and a book. Four musical angels in the tracery. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Morris & Co. designer: Edward Coley Burne-Jones Church of St John the Baptist, Newton, Swansea east wall of the chancel Christ is clean shaven, following the image on the medieval pulpit. The figure of Peter uses the same cartoon (but with different coloration) as the that by Morris, Marshall Faulkner & Co. in Llandaff Cathedral installed in 1874. Given in memory of Revd Edward Doddridge Knight, Rector.  (ObjectID=607 ImageID=2753) Original File Name=_MG_7980_1.jpg

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• 'Salvator Mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet - DD - Christ beardless 
• St John the Evangelist, apostle 
• St Peter, apostle and first bishop of Rome 

D. Charles Davies, The History of the Ancient Church situate at Newton Porthcawl in the Parish of Newton-Nottage (Porthcawl: 1938), p.33.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 474.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales