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| Keywords: Adelaide reredos.jpg en The reredos in St Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide carved by Nathaniel Hitch This reredos is made from solid English oak and is 10 4m high It was made at St Sidwell ™s Art Works in Exeter England by Herbert Read Company and designed by the architect T H Lyon Nathaniel Hitch carried out all the carving which consists of five panels around which are eighteen niches holding coloured and gilded figures The central panel depicts Christ Reigning in Glory and below this are four panels each one covering an incident in St Peter ™s life The statues in the niches at the top of the reredos represent four Archangels St Uriel St Michael St Gabriel and St Raphael We have statues of the Saints George Patrick Andrew and David and then Edward the Confessor The Venerable Bede and St Augustine of Canterbury We then have Martha of Bethany Catherine of Alexandria Barbara Margaret of Antioch St Agnes and finally the Virgin Mary as a teenager with her mother Anne and then as a mother with the infant Jesus At the very bottom of the reredos we have panelling upon which are carved the emblems of the four evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John own Weglinde Gordon Lawson Cc-zero Sculptures by Nathaniel Hitch St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide | ||||
