Set of Windows Depicting the Birth of Christ and Noah's Ark

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Shows position of seven of the eight lights. larger image

about 1977-1981 Set of eight cruciform windows with a star at the apex and scenes including the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, the Nativity, the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, the Flight into Egypt, Noah's Ark and animals. technique: stained glass size: 50 cm (width) [approx] artist: John Petts Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea north east wall (used as a Sunday School room) These windows were the last of the four sets of windows made for the church by the artist. The Nativity subjects were fitted 22 December 1977.  (ObjectID=1050 ImageID=1780) Original File Name=_MG_4401.jpg

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• adoration of the kings: the Wise Men present their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh)  [Matthew 2:11]
• flight into Egypt and miracles during the journey  [Matthew 2:14-15]
• Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)  [Luke 2:1-7]
• stars 
• story of Noah  [Genesis 6:; Genesis 7:; Genesis 8:]
• the animals enter the ark - story of Noah  [Genesis 7:5-9]
• The annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air  [Luke 2:8-14]
• the Annunciation: Mary, usually reading, is visited by the angel  [Luke 1:26-38]

Alison Smith, 'Light, Colour and the Bible: The Stained Glass Windows of John Petts (1914-91)' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 229-31.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 363.

Alison Smith, 'John Petts: Designer-Craftsman 1914-1991' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xix, no. 2 (1991–3), p. 227.

'Some Recent and Current Work - Wales' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xvi, no. 2 (1978–9), 55.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales