The Martyrdom of St Thomas à Beckett
detail from Christ in Majesty with St Thomas Becket and St Nicholas

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1957 Three-light window with standing figures. Panels below depicting the martyrdom of Thomas Becket; Mary, Joseph and the Infant Christ; and Nicholas with children. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Celtic Studios designer: Hubert Thomas Church of St Thomas, Monmouth, Monmouthshire east wall of the chancel Given by parishioners and friends of the church in 1957.  (ObjectID=2369 ImageID=6028) Original File Name=Overmonnow_DSC8124.jpg

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• before the altar St Thomas Becket is killed with a sword by four assassins (knights) 
• Holy Family (alone), 'Trinitas terrestris' 
• the bishop Nicholas of Myra (or Bari) 
• the martyr Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury 
• the risen Christ (with wounds, but without crown of thorns), sometimes holding the cross or a banner 

Maurice Broady, A Vision Fulfilled: The story of Celtic Studios and Swansea's architectural glass tradition (Swansea: West Glamorgan Archive Service, 2010), pp. 48-9.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire (London/Cardiff: 2000), p. 398.

Photo © Martin Crampin