Bible stories. Old Austrian wood carving of St Joseph teaching the infant Jesus to read scripture. St Andrew’s Church, West Stafford, Dorset, England.


An antique wooden carving representing St Joseph teaching the infant Jesus to read the scriptures. From Innsbruck in Austria. It hangs inside St Andrew’s Church in the Dorset village of West Stafford and was donated to the church in 1918 by the family of Canon Smith who had been rector of the church for 59 years.


Size: 2848px × 4288px
Location: St Andrew’s Church, West Stafford, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB.
Photo credit: © Andrew Wood / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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