The Sower

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1966 Single-light window with a young man sowing seed. Following the text of the parable, birds are shown coming to eat the seed, and some is shown falling on stony, or thorny, ground. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Celtic Studios artist: John Edwards Church of St Michael, Llandre, Ceredigion north wall of the nave Signed with the mark of the firm. The window was designed, cartooned and painted by John Edwards, and a similar window was installed in the Church of St David, Neath, in the following year. Given in memory of John Thomas Morgan (1885-1964), and also of Griffith Evans Morgan (1895-1918), who died in the First World War.  (ObjectID=4387 ImageID=8222) Original File Name=Llandre_DSC0773A.jpg

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• the sower - parable of Christ  [Matthew 13:3-9; Mark 4:3-9; Luke 8:5-8]

Maurice Broady, A Vision Fulfilled: The story of Celtic Studios and Swansea's architectural glass tradition (Swansea: West Glamorgan Archive Service, 2010), pp. 60, 111.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 503.

Photo © Martin Crampin