After visits to the North of England and Scotland, today’s stereo by James Edward Ellam (1857-1920) takes us to North Wales.

Bangor Cathedral has been rebuilt several times over the past 1500 years, but the present interior dates from the 1870s.

Here James has focussed on a three-dimensional detail from the front of the cathedral pulpit which is dated 1880 and made of Caen stone.

It portrays a scene following the Resurrection when Jesus Christ appeared to his disciples.

Above and below are words taken from a Biblical text known as The Great Commission.

The text reads: “Go Ye Into All The World … Preach The Gospel To Every Creature” (Mark 16, v. 15-16, King James version).

I recently showed James’s stereo to a friend, who sang in the choir at Bangor Cathedral as a child, and he immediately recognised it.

James is known to have been a keen church choir member, so perhaps his visit to Bangor coincided with a choral assignment at the cathedral.

Tomorrow: “Sheep Shearing.”

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