Ascension
detail from Scenes from the New Testament

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1961 Series of four windows depicting Christ in Gethsemane, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and Pentecost. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Celtic Studios artist: John Edwards Church of St Mary and Holy Innocents, Merthyr Vale, Rhondda Cynon Taff rear (liturgical west) wall Signed with Celtic Studios' usual maker's mark, and, unusually for the firm, includes the name of the window's designer. The windows were installed in the new building in the 1970s, and the original window had cusped tops and tracery lights. The square tops imposed on the reset windows remove the final trace of medievalism from these striking modern windows.  (ObjectID=4487 ImageID=9940) Original File Name=MerthyrVale_DSC6268B.jpg

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• crucified Christ with Mary, John, and Mary Magdalene  [Matthew 27:45-58; Mark 15:33-45; Luke 23:44-52; John 19:25-38]
• Gethsemane, Mount of Olives, 'Oelberg': Christ's prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane during the night  [Matthew 26:37-45; Mark 14:33-41; Luke 22:40-46]
• Pentecost: the Holy Ghost descends upon (Mary and) the apostles, sometimes Paul and/or representatives of the nations present  [Acts 2:1-4]
• the Ascension  [Luke 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-11]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 269–70.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 140.

Maurice Broady, A Vision Fulfilled: The story of Celtic Studios and Swansea's architectural glass tradition (Swansea: West Glamorgan Archive Service, 2010), pp. 59–60, 112.

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. 62.

Photo © Martin Crampin