A Depiction of The Raising of Lazarous in Stained Glass, St John The Evangelist Church, Tolpuddle.

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church, Church architecture, Church of England., Lazarus, St John The Evangelist Tolpuddle, stained glass., The Raising of Lazarus, Tolpuddle

A Depiction of The Entombment in Stained Glass, Wimborne Minster, Wimborne Minster.

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Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, entombment, Jesus Christ., Joseph of Armathea, Mary Magdalene, Nicedemus, St Mary, stained glass., The Blessed Virgin Mother, The Entombment, Wimborne Minster

Another usual example of stained glass from Wimborne Minster [the first being a depiction of The Resurrection]. Joseph of Arimathea, wearing a blue halo, as well as a red cap, lowers Jesus Christ into a “modern box tomb“, on the left of the scene. Nicedemus, who helped prepare Jesus Christ’s body for burial, wears a purple halo and stand on the right of the scene. Mary, The Blessed Virgin Mother, looks composed beside Joseph of Armathea. Mary Magdalene however is obscured by the haloes of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicedemus, which makes for a rather unusual composition!

You can see the top of her head above the haloes and two hands raised in an attitude of grief.

A Depiction of The Resurrection in Stained Glass, Wimborne Minster, Wimborne Minster.

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Angel, Banner of The Resurrection, Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, glass, Jesus Christ., stained glass., The Resurrection, tomb, Wimborne Minster

To quote from Richard Taylor’s “How To Read a Church“, “The moment of the Resurrection is not recorded in the Gospel, but it is widely portrayed in the art of the Western Church. Jesus emerges in glory from the tomb. He is dressed in white or gold and may be holding the banner of the Resurrection, a pole bearing a pendant with a red cross on a white background“.

Here the banner has a white cross on a red background, but I think it is safe to say that the central figure in this scene is Jesus Christ, bearing the wounds of his crucifixion (note hole in the palm of the right hand), rising from a rather fantastical tomb! The scene is made even more unusual by the presence of an angel in the foreground removing what looks like the lid of what Taylor describes in his book as a “modern box-tomb“, which seems to bear little relation to the crenelated from which Jesus Christ is emerging.

The Tower of St. James’ Priory, Bristol, 27/04/15.

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A Depiction of The Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven in Stained Glass, Holy Trinity Church, York.

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Statue of Noah, West Front, Beverley Minster.

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Statue of Abraham, West Front, Beverley Minster.

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Statue of Eve, West Front, Beverley Minster.

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The West Front, Lincoln Cathedral.

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According to “Harris’s Guide to Churches & Cathedrals“, “The West front was built 1075 – 92 by Bishop Remigius and has been partially covered by a later Gothic screen”. Lincoln Cathedral’s website informs me that Bishop Remigius was a Benedictine monk and the first Norman Bishop of Lincoln, the largest Diocese in Medieval England.

A Carving Depicting Adam and Eve, West Front, Lincoln Cathedral.

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Adam, Adam and Eve, apple, Beverley, Cathedrals, Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, Garden of Eden, Genesis, Lincoln Cathedral, stone carving, temptation, West Front Lincoln Cathedral