Sitting high above the organ at St. Philip’s Cathedral, Birmingham, these carvings say something about the important of both secular and religious authority within the Church of England. The crown symbolises the role of the monarch (and by extension Parliament and the state) in the running of what is the UK’s official religion. The bishop’s hats flanking it represent the importance of the clergy, church hierarchy and religious scholarship in the spiritual government and leader of the church.
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