Painted and Carved Images on the Iconostasis
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales / Artist
about 1990
Carved wooden scenes and decoration, with inset painted panels of saints and icons. The Last Supper is imaged above the doors. Main icons from left to right: St George, St Michael, St Nicholas and the Virgin and Child, Christ, Angel with head of John the Baptist, Raphael and St Demetrius.
Copyright: Artist
Church of St Nicholas, Cardiff
entrance to the chancel
Carved wooden scenes and decoration, with inset painted panels of saints and icons. The Last Supper is imaged above the doors. Main icons from left to right: St George, St Michael, St Nicholas and the Virgin and Child, Christ, Angel with head of John the Baptist, Raphael and St Demetrius.
Copyright: Artist
Church of St Nicholas, Cardiff
entrance to the chancel
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011
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- 'Pantocrator', Christ enthroned, making a speaking or blessing gesture and holding a book
- Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood [John 19:25-27]
- Madonna: Mary standing (or half-length), Christ-child close to her bosom
- St Demetrius
- St George
- St John the Baptist
- St Nicholas of Myra
- the Annunciation: Mary, usually reading, is visited by the angel [Luke 1:26-38]
- the Archangel Michael
- the Archangel Raphael
- the Last Supper [Matthew 26:21-35; Mark 14:18-31; Luke 22:15-23; John 13:21-38]
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Further reading
Andreas Andreopoulos, 'Icons and the Bible: St Nicholas's Orthodox Church, Cardiff' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 266-9.
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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/823 (accessed 10 November 2024)
https://stainedglass.delweddau.cymru/object/823 (accessed 10 November 2024)
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