Painted and Carved Images on the Iconostasis

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales / Artist Left hand half of the Iconostasis. larger image

about 1990 Carved wooden scenes and decoration, with inset painted panels of saints and icons. The Last Supper is imaged above the doors. Main icons from left to right: St George, St Michael, St Nicholas and the Virgin and Child, Christ, Angel with head of John the Baptist, Raphael and St Demetrius. Copyright: Artist Church of St Nicholas, Cardiff entrance to the chancel  (ObjectID=823 ImageID=1548) Original File Name=_MG_3053.jpg

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• 'Pantocrator', Christ enthroned, making a speaking or blessing gesture and holding a book 
• Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood  [John 19:25-27]
• John the Baptist 
• Madonna: Mary standing (or half-length), Christ-child close to her bosom 
• St Demetrius 
• the Annunciation: Mary, usually reading, is visited by the angel  [Luke 1:26-38]
• the Archangel Michael 
• the Archangel Raphael 
• the bishop Nicholas of Myra (or Bari) 
• the Last Supper  [Matthew 26:21-35; Mark 14:18-31; Luke 22:15-23; John 13:21-38]
• the warrior martyr George (Georgius) 

Andreas Andreopoulos, 'Icons and the Bible: St Nicholas's Orthodox Church, Cardiff' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 266-9.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales / Artist