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about 1901 Relief panels include church building, orb, Alpha Omega, three fishes, cross, IHS, anchor, dove. medium: stone technique: carved size: 125 cm (height) Church of St Matthew, Buckley, Flintshire baptistry Text: Father of all, one body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God. The text is conflated and reordered from Ephesians 4:4-6. The panels contain conventional images concerned with Baptism.  (ObjectID=91 ImageID=754) Original File Name=_MG_1126.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]
• anchor 
• church (exterior) 
• cross as symbol of Christ 
• fishes 
• Holy Ghost represented as a dove 
• IHS ('Iesus Hominum Salvator') - symbol of Christ 
• orb (symbol of sovereignty; sphere with cross on top) 

J. Clifford Jones, Buckley Parish Church 1822-1972 (Buckley: Buckley St Matthew's Churchwardens and Parochial Church Council, 1974), p. 32.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales