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Carvings above Organ | ||||
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Opposite Moses is the face of Peter. | ||||
The horned head and tablets is Moses. The horns stem from a 12th Century mistranslation of a passage in Exodus which described him as 'horned' rather than 'beaming'. | ||||
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The face with the squirrel and the wyvern may express the duality of human nature, with the evil potential of the wyvern on one side and the thrift of the squirrel on the other. | |||||||||
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The dragons represent evil and are often shown biting themselves as an indicator that such evil is self destructive. | |||||||||
The skull with worms symbolises human mortality. | |||||||||
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The star may be a heraldic reference to the Hamilton family. | ||||||||
The scales refer to justice. | ||||||||
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The intertwined palms indicate martyrdom.
| The sword is an attribute of St. Paul. | |||
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