Christ in Majesty
detail from Christ in Majesty with the Symbols of the Four Evangelists

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1962 Three-light window. Christ is seated at the centre with rays of lights extending into the outer lights. The symbols of the four evangelists are shown in the upper and lower outer lights. Figures at the sides are probably the apostles, and those below perhaps probably represent Paul and John the Baptist, and perhaps Mary and Martha. Cities and churches are depicted as islands in the waters at the base of the window. technique: stained glass artist: Francis Spear Church of All Saints, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan west wall of the nave  (ObjectID=4824 ImageID=9197) Original File Name=PenarthAllSaints_DSC7437.jpg

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• Majestas Domini': Christ in mandorla seated on a rainbow or sphere 
• the four symbols of the evangelists, 'the apocalyptic beasts'  [Revelation 4:6-8]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 274.

Alan Brooks, The Stained Glass of Francis Spear (Privately published, 2012), pp. 51, 61.

Martin Crampin, 'A Change of Direction: Modernism in the stained glass of the Diocese of Llandaff in the 1950s and 1960s' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xlii (2018), p. 64.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 491.

Photo © Martin Crampin