Adam At The West Portal Of The Minster - Beverley, UK
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This is one of 108 statues on the outside of Beverley Minster, a mixture of religious figures and a few kings and queens.
Waymark Code: WM171WG
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/22/2022
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There has been a christian community on this site for over 1300 years. It has had a turbulent history over that period but the structure of the Minster as we see it today was completed around 1420, although there have been many other changes inside since then.
In the nineteenth century during the time that Canon Nolloth was vicar many improvements were made to the Minster including Sixty nine of the statues were carved life size in stone by ‘Mr Smith’ and John and Bryant Baker. They were placed in niches on the outside of the minster that were at that time vacant.
The Statue
The statue stands to the left hand side of the West Portal entrance to the Minster. He is near the ground level next to the door with another statue of Noah to his left.
He is portrayed wearing an animal skin, standing upright with his left hand on his hip and resting his right hand on a shovel denoting his role as a gardner.
Adam the person
Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, adam is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". Genesis 1 tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including adam, meaning humankind; in Genesis 2 God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Genesis 3 Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; Genesis 4 deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and Genesis 5 lists his descendants from Seth to Noah.
The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations in later Judaism, Christianity, and gnosticism."
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