Symbols from Revelation
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
1956
Eight-light rose window. Includes the four creatures from Revelation 4, adopted as the four symbols of the evangelists, and the Agnus Dei at the centre.
firm/studio: William Morris & Co (Westminster)
designer: Frederick W. Cole
St Davids Cathedral, St Davids, Pembrokeshire
west wall of the north aisle
One of a pair of rose windows in the west wall of the cathedral. They are dated 1957 in the Directory of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, published in 1966.
Eight-light rose window. Includes the four creatures from Revelation 4, adopted as the four symbols of the evangelists, and the Agnus Dei at the centre.
firm/studio: William Morris & Co (Westminster)
designer: Frederick W. Cole
St Davids Cathedral, St Davids, Pembrokeshire
west wall of the north aisle
One of a pair of rose windows in the west wall of the cathedral. They are dated 1957 in the Directory of the British Society of Master Glass Painters, published in 1966.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 14-09-2020
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- heaven represented as a city [Revelation 21:2; Revelation 21:10-27]
- lamb bearing cross or banner, 'Agnus Dei' - symbol of Christ
- the four symbols of the evangelists, 'the apocalyptic beasts' [Revelation 4:6-8]
- the four winds [Revelation 7:1]
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Further reading
Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 414.
ReferencesPainton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 223.
A Directory of Stained Glass Windows (London: The British Society of Master Glass-Painters, 1966), p. 36.
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2020.
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