Sedilia, All Saints' church, Hawton
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Sedilia, All Saints' church, Hawton
Image: © Julian P Guffogg Taken: 18 May 2022
The Sedilia have many carvings, at the top are St Edmund, St Peter with his key, St Clement, St Ann with a lily, St Margaret of Antioch and a dragon, and St Mary Magdalene with her vase of ointment. The saints are being crowned by angels. Lower down there are two figures in oak trees, men cutting grapes, one with a comb, and a pelican feeding her young by piercing her side. All these references are symbolic to wine at the last supper and Christ shedding his blood. There is also numerous foliage, small heads and animals carved in the sedilia.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.051625
Longitude
-0.825278