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Barton Turf rood screen 24 Aug 2012 | 10:58 pm
Above you will find a short video I've made about the painted rood screen at Barton Turf in Norfolk.
The Lyng table carpet 28 Jun 2012 | 12:38 am
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...
Patens (medieval examples) 27 Nov 2011 | 06:17 am
As you may expect due to the wholesale and well-organised confiscation of parish silver in the mid sixteenth century, medieval English parish plate does not survive in vast quantities. There are just...
Looking down (at medieval floors) 9 Nov 2011 | 10:20 pm
Quite often when we visit church buildings we are so busy looking up at the soaring architecture and the fine roofs, that we sometimes forget to look at the floors. St Nicholas, Salthouse on the nor....
Marian tympanum 8 Nov 2011 | 07:53 am
The grand Perpendicular church at Ludham to the north-west of Norwich, has it's fair share of remarkable treasures, a lovely fifteenth century hammerbeam roof covering the nave a fine early Tudor rood...
Here is an encaustic antidote 29 Mar 2011 | 06:23 am
Waithe, Lincolnshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum (Allan Barton). to the 70s Lenten array I posted earlier. Henry Thorold described the chancel at Waithe in Lincolnshire with its tad excessive M...
Contemporary Lenten array 28 Mar 2011 | 11:14 pm
Below are some images of a more contemporary (well sort of 70s) set of Lenten hangings from Stoke D'Abernon in Surrey. The photos come from the Flickr archive of SarumSleuth
Grantham Lent array 14 Mar 2011 | 07:45 am
At the glorious fourteenth century church of St Wulfram in Grantham, Lincolnshire is this dramatic example of Lenten array photographed here by SarumSleuth. The array entirely coveres George Gilbert ...
Lenten array 2011 13 Mar 2011 | 08:01 am
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 ...
Gospel lecterns 23 Feb 2011 | 08:38 am
Lectern at Cropredy, Oxfordshire Quite a number of medieval lecterns survive in English parish churches. Many of the surviving examples are fifteenth or early sixteenth century and are made of brass ...
