Butterfly Window

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Shows the two windows by Kuni Kajiwara in the context of the baptistry, with George Pace's iron font canopy of 1972. larger image

1981 Two-light window showing the destruction of Swansea in 1941 and the rebuilding which followed. A butterfly overlays the scenes in both windows. Three lines rising in each light symbolise the Holy Trinity. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Glantawe Studios artist: Kuni Kajiwara Church of St Mary, Swansea north wall of the north aisle, adjacent to the baptistry Signed and dated with the name of the artist and the name and mark of Glantawe Studios. Given in memory of Thomas and Maud Leeson Barlow.  (ObjectID=1799 ImageID=3780) Original File Name=_MG_4538.jpg

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• insects: butterfly 
• the Holy Trinity depicted in abstract terms 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 296-7.

A Short Guide to the Stained Glass Windows in St. Mary's Parish Church Swansea (Swansea: The Friends of St. Mary's, 2001 (second edition)).

Mark Angus, Modern Stained Glass in British Churches (Oxford: Mowbray, 1984), pp. 100-1.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 581.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 226.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales