St Alban
detail from St Stephen and St Alban

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probably 1920s Two-light window with standing figures. Stephen stands holding rocks, while Alban holds a martyr's palm and a sword. A crown is at the centre of an upper trefoil. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Charles Powell Church of St Jude, Swansea south wall of the south aisle chapel Installed as one of a pair of adjacent war memorial windows, by the same maker as the east window, which was also given as a war memorial. The three Lady Chapel windows are included in the lists of windows by Charles Powell and successive lists by Christopher Charles Powell published by the British Society of Master Glass Painters. They are improbably dated 1939 in the 1952 Directory, even they are included in Charles Powell's list of windows in 1930. Texts: 'But he, being full of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly into Heaven.' (Acts 7:55); 'They loved not their lives unto the death' (Revelation 12:11). Given in memory of all of the men from the parish who died in the First World War.  (ObjectID=4742 ImageID=8997) Original File Name=SwanseaStJude_DSC3235_53A.jpg

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John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 585.

Some Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1930), p. 87.

A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1939), p. 65.

A Directory of Stained Glass Windows executed within the past twenty years (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1952), p. 72.

Photo © Martin Crampin