Tracery Lights
detail from The Crucifixion with St Teilo and St David

  Tracery Lights    detail from    The Crucifixion with St Teilo and St David

Photo © Martin Crampin

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1920
Three-light window. A soldier kneels at the feet of the crucified Christ, with two standing figures in the outer lights.

technique: stained glass

firm/studio: Robert J. Newbery

Church of St Teilo, Bishopston, Swansea
east wall of the chancel

Text held by angels: 'And I if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto Me' (John 12:32).

Given in memory of men who died in the First World War. Geoffrey Orrin records that the window cost £142, paid for by public subscription with a donation from the Bishopston Sailors' and Soldiers' Fund.





 

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Further reading

Geoffrey R. Orrin, A Guide to the Parish Church of St Teilo, Bishopston (1975).

References

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 194-5.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 154.




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  Tracery Lights    detail from    The Crucifixion with St Teilo and St David

Photo © Martin Crampin


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