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

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1904 Five seated figures under canopies. Isaac is shown as a boy with Abraham. medium: Caen stone technique: carved designer: E. M. Bruce Vaughan Church of St Margaret, Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff east wall of the sanctuary Around the Caen stone sculpture various sources of marble and alabaster are used. Its cost of £250 was met by a Parishioner. The church guide book attributes it as being to the design of the church architect E.M. Bruce Vaughan, but the piece is a close copy of the reredos at the Church of St John the Baptist, Cardiff, carved by William Goscombe John in 1891.  (ObjectID=1183 ImageID=10760) Original File Name=MountainAsh_DSC8884-71B.jpg

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• Aaron (not in biblical context) 
• Abraham (not in biblical context) 
• Isaac 
• Melchizedek (not in biblical context) 
• St Peter, apostle and first bishop of Rome 
• the prophet Isaiah (not in biblical context) 

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