St John
detail from Christ with St Peter and St John
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
1877
Three-light window. Depicts Christ, St John the Evangelist with the chalice and St Peter holding a key and a book. Four musical angels in the tracery.
firm/studio: Morris & Co.
designer: Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Church of St John the Baptist, Newton, Swansea
east wall of the chancel
Christ is clean shaven, following the image on the medieval pulpit. The figure of Peter uses the same cartoon (but with different coloration) as the that by Morris, Marshall Faulkner & Co. in Llandaff Cathedral installed in 1874.
Given in memory of Revd Edward Doddridge Knight, Rector.
Three-light window. Depicts Christ, St John the Evangelist with the chalice and St Peter holding a key and a book. Four musical angels in the tracery.
firm/studio: Morris & Co.
designer: Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Church of St John the Baptist, Newton, Swansea
east wall of the chancel
Christ is clean shaven, following the image on the medieval pulpit. The figure of Peter uses the same cartoon (but with different coloration) as the that by Morris, Marshall Faulkner & Co. in Llandaff Cathedral installed in 1874.
Given in memory of Revd Edward Doddridge Knight, Rector.
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 20-12-2011
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- 'Salvator Mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet - DD - Christ beardless
- St John the Evangelist, apostle
- St Peter, apostle and first bishop of Rome
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Further reading
D. Charles Davies, The History of the Ancient Church situate at Newton Porthcawl in the Parish of Newton-Nottage (Porthcawl: 1938), p.33.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 474.
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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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