Pelican in Her Piety
detail from The Three Marys Visit the Empty Tomb

  Pelican in Her Piety    detail from    The Three Marys Visit the Empty Tomb

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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probably 1900s
Five-light window. The central scene depicts an angel addressing the three women at the empty tomb, set in a decorative border and amid flowers and symbols (Agnus Dei and pelican in her piety). Angels in the tracery lights.

technique: stained glass


Trinity Methodist Church, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan
west wall of the nave

Text: 'Death is swallowd up in victory'.




 

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References

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 211.




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  Pelican in Her Piety    detail from    The Three Marys Visit the Empty Tomb

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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