St Gabriel
detail from Te Deum

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1925 Five-light window. Christ seated in Majesty in the centre light between the archangels Gabriel and Michael and the Agnus Dei below. Symbols of the four evangelists above the archangels, and standing figures of Peter, Isaiah, Paul and Stephen in the outer lights. Angels in the tracery lights, while below are the four Latin fathers and the four Eastern fathers. technique: stained glass size: 42 cm (width of each light) [approx] firm/studio: A. K. Nicholson Stained Glass Studios Church of St Gabriel, Brynmill, Swansea east wall of the chancel Texts in the outer lights from the Te Deum. The window was given in memory of John Rees Davies.  (ObjectID=2333 ImageID=8596) Original File Name=SwanseaStGabriel_DSC6445.jpg

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• 'Salvator Mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet 
• angels 
• Te Deum Laudamus (Ambrosian Hymn) 
• the four evangelists together (author portraits) 
• the four Greek (Eastern) Fathers of the Church together: Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Chrysostom and Athanasius the Great 
• the four Latin (Western) Fathers of the Church together: Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine and Gregory the Great. 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 223-4.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 584.

Some Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1930), p. 79.

A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1939), p. 59.

Photo © Martin Crampin