'A Sword will Pierce Your Soul'
from Set of Windows with Symbols of the Virgin Mary
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
1973
Set of seven cruciform windows including images of a crown (at the apex), the sword piercing Mary's soul with the crown of thorns, a six-winged creature, and the dove with small branch in its beak (returning to Noah's Ark), also lilies and a rosary. Each of the six lower windows has symbols set beneath a crown.
size: 50 cm (width) [approx]
artist: John Petts
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea
north west wall
These windows were commissioned along with the sculpture of the Virgin and Child, also by John Petts.
Set of seven cruciform windows including images of a crown (at the apex), the sword piercing Mary's soul with the crown of thorns, a six-winged creature, and the dove with small branch in its beak (returning to Noah's Ark), also lilies and a rosary. Each of the six lower windows has symbols set beneath a crown.
size: 50 cm (width) [approx]
artist: John Petts
Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea
north west wall
These windows were commissioned along with the sculpture of the Virgin and Child, also by John Petts.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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References
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.
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
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