Medieval History
- The Lampeter Chasuble
When I arrived here as Chaplain to the University Campus in Lampeter in May, I had no idea what riches awaited me. The Chapel has a wonderful collection of historic vestments dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Among the...
- The Lyng Table Carpet
One of the most tragic losses of the Reformation was undoubtedly the destruction of fine ecclesiastical textiles. Many thousands of vestments were confiscated and destroyed during the reign of Edward VI and many others were taken...
- In Search Of Morebath
I first picked up Professor Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars when I was an undergraduate reading History at University College London. It was the mid 90's and the revisionist view of the Reformation had really begun to take a firm hold...
- More Medieval Vestment Recycling, This Time In Lincolnshire
Another medieval vestment for you. Careby in Lincolnshire has the remarkable remains of a late fifteenth century cope. It is decorated with embroidered seraphs and this particularly lovely Assumption in the centre. The background is a glorious red silk...
- Comper High Mass Vestments At St Mark's Philadelphia
Front of Chasuble by Ninian Comper, originally uploaded by dave62448.I'm not going to comment on the fabulous photos Davis has posted on his Flickr stream, I think these Comper vestments speak for themselves. The vestments are at St Mark's Philadelphia...
Medieval History
Medieval vestment recycling in Exeter
I came across the following images the other day. They are of a funerary pall from St Mary Arches in Exeter, now in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in the city. The pall is post-Reformation and is recycled from elements of pre-Reformation vestments, including a strips of rich back and gold figured velvet from a cope and embroidered orphreys both from a cope and from a chasuble. With the Devon connection and the black and gold velvet, I can't help thinking of Eamon Duffy's Voices of Morebath and the fate of poor Sir Christopher Trychay's black vestments. He spent so many years saving for, only for them to be surrendered more-or-less as soon as they arrived.
Detail of the chasuble orphrey and some of the black and gold figured velvet.
Detail of one of the cope orphreys, fairly standard figures of the Apostles under canopies.
Tollhouse Alan's photo of St Mary at Arches, Exeter.
- The Lampeter Chasuble
When I arrived here as Chaplain to the University Campus in Lampeter in May, I had no idea what riches awaited me. The Chapel has a wonderful collection of historic vestments dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Among the...
- The Lyng Table Carpet
One of the most tragic losses of the Reformation was undoubtedly the destruction of fine ecclesiastical textiles. Many thousands of vestments were confiscated and destroyed during the reign of Edward VI and many others were taken...
- In Search Of Morebath
I first picked up Professor Eamon Duffy's Stripping of the Altars when I was an undergraduate reading History at University College London. It was the mid 90's and the revisionist view of the Reformation had really begun to take a firm hold...
- More Medieval Vestment Recycling, This Time In Lincolnshire
Another medieval vestment for you. Careby in Lincolnshire has the remarkable remains of a late fifteenth century cope. It is decorated with embroidered seraphs and this particularly lovely Assumption in the centre. The background is a glorious red silk...
- Comper High Mass Vestments At St Mark's Philadelphia
Front of Chasuble by Ninian Comper, originally uploaded by dave62448.I'm not going to comment on the fabulous photos Davis has posted on his Flickr stream, I think these Comper vestments speak for themselves. The vestments are at St Mark's Philadelphia...