Abraham
detail from Melchizedek with Aaron, Abraham, Isaiah and Peter

  Abraham    detail from    Melchizedek with Aaron, Abraham, Isaiah and Peter

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1891
Seated figures set within elaborate stone arcading. Aaron with Abraham and the young Isaac, and Isaiah with Peter, flank the central figure of Priest King Melchizedek who holds the wine and the host.

technique: carved

designer: John Prichard
artist: William Goscombe John

Church of St John the Baptist, Cardiff
sanctuary

Figures by William Goscombe John, dedicated in 1892. They are placed under arcading designed by the architects Kempson & Fowler, and made by Clarke's of Llandaff. The reredos was dedicated in August 1890, at which time the intention was to fill the niches with oil paintings. The figures were gilded in the 1970s under the direction of the architect George Pace.





 

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Further reading

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 190.

W. H. John, The Parish Church of Cardiff: St John the Baptist (Much Wenlock: RJL Smith & Associates, 1992), p. 5.




  Abraham    detail from    Melchizedek with Aaron, Abraham, Isaiah and Peter

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales


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