Virgin and Child
detail from Virgin and Child Between Two Angels

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin larger image

about 1894 Seated figure of Mary supporting the infant Christ who stands on her knee, making a blessing. Two angels with incense at either side, and seated male figures at either end, perhaps prophets, apostles or evangelists. All set beneath polychrome arcading medium: pink alabaster technique: carved artist: William Clarke Church of St Nicholas, Nicholaston, Swansea east wall of the chancel  (ObjectID=1842 ImageID=4048) Original File Name=Nicholaston_DSC3209.jpg

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• angels 
• Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child standing on her knee (Christ-child to Mary's left) 

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 476.

Geoffrey Orrin, The Gower Churches: A Survey of the Churches in the Rural Deanery of West Gower (1979), p. 52.

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin