Christian Symbols

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin larger image

about 1968 Three-light window consisting of roundels containing symbols. Left-hand light: butterfly, wheat and grapes, cockerel; central light: the eye of God, dove, two fish, lilies, winged bull (symbol of Luke); right-hand light: heavenly crown, crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver. technique: stained glass size: 45 cm (width of each light) artist: Tim Lewis Church of St Luke, Cwmdare, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff east wall of the chancel The windows are not leaded.  (ObjectID=2228 ImageID=5532) Original File Name=Aberdare_DSC4189.jpg

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• cereal, grain, corn (grass with grains, grown for food, e.g.: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet) 
• coin - money 
• crown (symbol of sovereignty) 
• crown of thorns - instruments of the Passion 
• fishes 
• Holy Ghost represented as a dove 
• insects: butterfly 
• lily 
• ox (possibly with book) - symbol of St Luke  [Revelation 4:7]
• the all-seeing eye, triangle with eye - symbol of God the Father 
• the crowing cock - denial of Peter  [Matthew 26:74-75; Mark 15:68-72; Luke 22:60-61; John 19:27]
• vine 

Maurice Broady, 'Stained Glass Design in Wales' Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. 6 (new series) (2000), 163.

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 134.

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin