Lifeboat Window
© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin
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1977
Four-light window showing lifeboatmen with boats in the water and semi-abstract scenes below.
designer: Tim LewisChurch of All Saints, Oystermouth, Swanseanorth aisle (window number: nVII)
Signed with Glantawe Studios mark.
The window commemorates the tragic loss of all the crew of the Mumbles lifeboat in a storm on the night of the 23 April 1947.
Cartoons for the window can be found on the Swansea Stained Glass Archive catalogue. (ObjectID=1822 ImageID=4002) Original File Name=Oystermouth_DSC3135.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 11-02-2025
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Click here for other works at this siteClick here for other works connected to Tim LewisFurther readingMaurice Broady, 'Stained Glass Design in Wales' Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, vol. 6 (new series) (2000), 163.
Geoffrey R. Orrin and F.G. Cowley, A History of All Saints' Church, Oystermouth (1990), p. 72.
ReferencesMartin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), pp. 289–90.
John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 484.
Judith Neiswander and Caroline Swash, Stained and Art Glass, pp. 370–1.
Mark Angus, Modern Stained Glass in British Churches (Oxford: Mowbray, 1984), pp. 86–7.
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, 2025.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/1822 (accessed 6 September 2025)
© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin
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