Medieval History
- Lenten Array 2011
The ancient western custom of covering altars and images with Lenten array and Lenten veils has been covered on this blog a number of times. If you want to know more about the custom and its purpose look at the article here and...
- It's That Time Of Year Again, Time To Put Up The Lenten Array!
The Lenten array at All Saints, Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire, all three altars draped in unbleached linen with blood red decoration. The stencilled shields containing instruments of the Passion, are from the Lenten array frontal at St Mary's...
- Advent Blue Ii
AdventBlue 012, originally uploaded by sarumsleuth. I couldn't resist posting some of SarumSleuth's photos of the glorious Advent blue high mass set at Primrose Hill in London. St Mary's, Primrose Hill is Percy Dearmer's church and the...
- Dorchester Roman Catholic Church
Dorchester, St Birinus Catholic Church, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.The tiny Roman Catholic church of St Birinus in Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, has undergone a radical transformation over the course of the last three of four...
- Percy Dearmer And The The Warham Guild
St Mary's Primrose Hill, Hampstead, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.A lot of people know that one of my great heroes is the priest, poet, liturgist and artist Percy Dearmer. To my mind Dearmer was one of the greatest figures in the early twentieth...
Medieval History
The Lenten Rood Veil
Percy Dearmer, the author of the Parson's Handbook, was vicar of St Mary's Primrose Hill in Hampstead, so it is no surprise that this glorious church has a full set of Lenten array. The church also follows the pre-Reformation practice of veiling the great rood at the chancel step and they use a veil dating from Dearmer's incumbency, strikingly stencilled in black and red. In medieval liturgical practice the great rood above the rood screen was covered up with the other images in the church at the beginning of Lent. However, while the other veils remained until the Paschal Vigil, in the Sarum Use the rood veil was dramatically removed at the end of the procession on Palm Sunday as the priest twice sung Ave rex noster, fili david (hail our king, son of David) and the chanters took up the anthem. The veil at Primrose Hill is suspended on a pulley system and they still follow the medieval custom of unveiling it on Palm Sunday as Sarumsleuth's photos below demonstrate.
Here for good measure are a couple of pictures of the Lenten array in other parts of this lovely church.
Sources
For the medieval practice of unveiling the rood on Palm Sunday see: The Use of Sarum I, Richard Pynson Processionale ad Usum Sarum 1502 (Boethius Press, 1980)
- Lenten Array 2011
The ancient western custom of covering altars and images with Lenten array and Lenten veils has been covered on this blog a number of times. If you want to know more about the custom and its purpose look at the article here and...
- It's That Time Of Year Again, Time To Put Up The Lenten Array!
The Lenten array at All Saints, Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire, all three altars draped in unbleached linen with blood red decoration. The stencilled shields containing instruments of the Passion, are from the Lenten array frontal at St Mary's...
- Advent Blue Ii
AdventBlue 012, originally uploaded by sarumsleuth. I couldn't resist posting some of SarumSleuth's photos of the glorious Advent blue high mass set at Primrose Hill in London. St Mary's, Primrose Hill is Percy Dearmer's church and the...
- Dorchester Roman Catholic Church
Dorchester, St Birinus Catholic Church, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.The tiny Roman Catholic church of St Birinus in Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, has undergone a radical transformation over the course of the last three of four...
- Percy Dearmer And The The Warham Guild
St Mary's Primrose Hill, Hampstead, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.A lot of people know that one of my great heroes is the priest, poet, liturgist and artist Percy Dearmer. To my mind Dearmer was one of the greatest figures in the early twentieth...