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A Depiction of St. John in Stained Glass, Bath Abbey, Bath.

15 Friday May 2015

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Bath.

Note the ink well St. John is using.

To quote from Richard Taylor’s, “How To Read a Church“, one of my most thumbed through reference books, “St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke and St. John, each a writer of the four Gospels, are known as the Four Evangelists. Their symbols are, respectively, a man (or angle), a lion (often with wings), a bull or ox (likewise), and an eagle“.

All four symbols are used by the Prophet Ezekiel in the Old Testament, “As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle” (Ezekiel 1:10) and The Book of Revelation, “ And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle” (Revelation 4:7).

To quote from Taylor again, “St. John was ascribed the eagle because his Gospel is the most soaring and revelatory, and the eagle in mythology is the only bird able to look directly into the light of the sun“.

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Statue of Noah, West Front, Beverley Minster.

12 Thursday Mar 2015

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Ark, Beverley, Beverley Minster, Church architecture, Church of England., Churches, Noah, Noah's Ark, Old Testament, statue, stone carving, The Bible

Beverley.

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Statue of Abraham, West Front, Beverley Minster.

12 Thursday Mar 2015

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Beverley.

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Statue of Eve, West Front, Beverley Minster.

12 Thursday Mar 2015

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Beverley.

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A Depiction of Miriam in Stained Glass, Bury St. Edmunds Cathedral.

15 Sunday Feb 2015

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Bury St. Edmunds.

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Souvenirs: Paper Bag, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, 2012.

22 Thursday Jan 2015

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The bag.

The bag.

This is a surprisingly interesting paper bag (honestly). The illuminated manuscript letter W in the centre takes its inspiration from The Winchester Bible, “the largest and perhaps finest of all surviving 12th-century English bibles“. I believe the two figures entwined within the letter depict God addressing Jeremiah and giving him the gift of prophecy:

“Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth“. Jeremiah 1:9.

In the original the two figures are much closer together, with God actually touching the lips of Jeremiah inside an illuminated letter, which you can see if you follow the link above.

Psalm 41 Verse 1, Beverley Minster, Beverley.

14 Sunday Sep 2014

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