Set of Windows in the Baptistry Chapel

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1968 Set of eight cruciform windows. The windows include a pierced hand, a dove, a foot passing though waters with a serpent, a fountain, a broken chain with a star amid the waters, hands tied with a serpent, and a sword. All the windows are coloured blue, and appear to be set in water, appropriate to the waters of baptism. technique: stained glass size: 50 cm (width) [approx] artist: John Petts Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea north west wall The colouring of these windows is very similar to that employed in the side windows for Brighton and Hove New Synagogue, also made in the late 1960s, while the blues continued to be used in windows such as his Peace Window at St Mary, Fishguard, in 1984.  (ObjectID=1053 ImageID=1806) Original File Name=_MG_4436.jpg

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• baptism, christening ceremony - the first of the seven sacraments 
• blood 
• hacking and thrusting weapons: sword 
• hand 
• Holy Ghost represented as a dove 
• snakes 
• water (one of the four elements) 

Alison Smith, 'Light, Colour and the Bible: The Stained Glass Windows of John Petts (1914-91)' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 229-30.

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.

Directory of Master Glass Painters (London: Oriel Press (The British Society of Master Glass-Painters), 1972), p. 78.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales