Pelican in Her Piety
detail from Christ Blessing the Children
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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1938
Two-light window showing Christ blessing the children and a woman bringing a child to Christ in the left hand light, set in a landscape with vines growing behind. Below the main scene, two panels show women teaching children. The upper part of the window, only visible from the gallery, shows the Pelican feeding her young.
firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltddesigner: Ernest Penwardenartist: A. F. ErridgeTredegarville Baptist Church, Cardiffside wall
The window is signed by the firm with their cowled monk.
Text: 'Suffer the little children to come unto me' (Mark 10:14).
Dedication: 'In happy memory of Hopkin (1836-1893) and Elizabeth Jane Williams (1847-1937).The panels below possibly depict Hannah teaching Samuel to read and Elizabeth teaching the boy John the Baptist. (ObjectID=798 ImageID=1466) Original File Name=_MG_3188.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 19-01-2021
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Show more subjectsMartin O'Kane, 'Biblical Art from Wales: From Text to Image' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), p. 66.
ReferencesJohn Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 304.
Click to show suggested citation for this recordMartin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2021.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/798 (accessed 6 September 2025)
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