Virgin and Child
detail from Virgin and Child with St Illtud

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

1949 Two-light window with standing figure of Mary holding the Christ-child, and Illtud, with hawk and spear. Upper pentafoil contains dove of the Holy Spirit within crown of thorns and vine leaves. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. Church of St Mary, Burry Port, Carmarthenshire south wall of the south aisle Text: 'Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' (John 15:13). Given in memory of the men from Burry Port who gave their lives in the Second World War.  (ObjectID=2252 ImageID=5671) Original File Name=Burry Port_DSC3886.jpg

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• Madonna: Mary standing (or half-length), Christ-child close to her bosom 
• St Illtud 

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 124.

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