Stained Glass Windows - St. Paul's RC church - Tintagel, Cornwall
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Stained glass windows in St Paul's RC church, Tintagel, made by the monks of Buckfast Abbey.
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Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/04/2017
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"The beautiful windows were designed by Dom Charles Norris O.S.B. and made at Buckfast Abbey in Devon. They are made in a different way from conventional stained glass windows in that they are constructed of thick, deliberately chipped pieces of brilliant glass of various colours laid in a matrix made of sand and solidified resin glue."
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The images in the windows are (as shown in image gallery) :
- The Glastonbury Thorn, with St. Michael's church tower on the tor.
- The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, with the Host and Chalice used in the Mass.
- Calvary, with the three crosses.
- The spear of Longinus and the Grail.
- The Five Sacred Wounds of Christ, as used on the banner of the Cornish rallying to the defence of the Holy Mass in the uprising of 1549.
- The banner of the priory of the Augustinian Canons before the Reformation. The letters stand for "Canons Regular of the Lateran", who were at Bodmin both before and after the Reformation. It is thanks to their work in Cornwall from the latter part of the 19th century until relatively recently, that the Catholic Faith has increased hugely in strength.