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Granite steps to a church: grey treads with a red-brown strip down the middle, handrails on both sides, a post on a black stone base

Granite steps for a church: surface, colour and handrails

Granite steps for a church: why granite suits an entrance, what surface the treads need, why two colours of stone, and handrails on both sides.

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A white cross with rounded ends and a round image of the Mother of God with the Child at the centre, a plaque below, a black rectangular base under the cross

Cross with an icon of the Mother of God: white marble, black granite

Cross with an icon of the Mother of God: a round image at the crossing, the letters MP and IC XC, a plaque. White marble on a black granite base.

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Stone cross with a Crucifixion in relief: a stepped base with an inscription, a niche with two columns, a skull at the foot, a title board at the top

Stone cross with the Crucifixion: how to read it from the bottom up

A stone cross with the Crucifixion reads from the bottom up: base, niche, Golgotha, Crucifixion. What the skull and the letters ІНЦІ (INRI) and IC XC mean.

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Arched icon on stone: St Nicholas in a mitre blesses with his right hand and holds a closed Gospel in his left; above him, Christ and the Mother of God

Icon of St Nicholas on stone: arch, halo and inscription

Icon of St Nicholas on stone: how to recognise the image, why Christ and the Mother of God appear above, and what to decide: arch, halo, inscription.

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IKONASTONE illustration after the official visualisation: a Gothic Revival church with a central bell tower and spire, Jackson, Missouri

Jackson, Missouri: why a parish is building a new Gothic Revival church

A Jackson, Missouri, parish is building a Gothic Revival church by Mythodium Architects. It has grown; the old church, the architects say, lacks grandeur.

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Two stone figures on rough-split bases: Christ with a lamb and a raised right hand, and the Mother of God with the Child, with drawings and details alongside

Stone sculpture for a church: the Good Shepherd and the Mother of God

Stone sculpture for church grounds or a chapel: the Good Shepherd and the Mother of God with the Child. Sculpture in the round versus relief.

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Round icon of the Saviour Not-Made-by-Hands on stone: the face of Christ on a cloth, a cruciform halo, an ornament running round the circle

The Saviour Not-Made-by-Hands: a round icon on stone

The Saviour Not-Made-by-Hands: the image of Christ on a cloth, by Tradition the first. How to recognise it, why a round form suits it, where it is placed.

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