Reredos with Profile Heads

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1879 Four male heads in profile, perhaps the four evangelists, with two biblical texts and a central cross. medium: Bath stone technique: carved designer: Thomas Nicholson Church of St Michael, Forden, Powys east wall of the chancel The two texts have a direct Eucharistic reference, bread and wine being the elements used in the celebration. Placed in this context they theologically indicate the Real Presence of Christ in the sacrament.  (ObjectID=58 ImageID=697) Original File Name=_MG_1461.jpg

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• the Eucharist - the fourth of the seven sacraments 
• the four evangelists together (author portraits) 

Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: 1979), p. 102.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales