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about 1870 Square-topped font with carved symbols around the sides, including the symbols of the evangelists, a dove, cross and alpha and omega. medium: stone technique: carved designer: John Norton Eglwys Oen Duw, Beulah, Powys nave  (ObjectID=1916 ImageID=4328) Original File Name=_MG_6215.jpg

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• alpha and omega - symbol of God the Father  [Revelation 1:8; Revelation 1:11; Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:13]
• the dove returns with an olive-branch - story of Noah  [Genesis 8:11]
• the four symbols of the evangelists, 'the apocalyptic beasts'  [Revelation 4:6-8]

Richard Haslam, The Buildings of Wales: Powys (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: 1979), p. 283.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales