(1) The raised central platform or predella has the ambo at one end and the altar at the other.(2) Ray Carroll designed the altar, tabernacle, ambo and chair.(3) Opposite, a humbler twelfth-century ambo has a paired mosaic motif, showing Jonah being eaten and then regurgitated by a twirly-tailed whale.(4) Preparations continue in the locality and the church is looking resplendent with a new altar, tabernacle and ambo as well as a new carpet.(5) Early Christian churches had no pulpits other than the ambos where scriptures could be read.
