Buckland Gloucestershire
15c Buckland Pall is made from portions of 3 velvet vestments with embroidery executed in gold and silver thread with added coloured silks and spangles. flic.kr/p/2azFG4f
The centre part is made from a blue velvet cope worked with conventional flowers.
Part of the lower border is made from a vestment of red velvet embroidered with a representation of the crucifixion, the figures of BVM and St John, originally standing on either side, have been re- applied beneath the cross.
The upper border is made from the same vestment, and has figures of a bishop with mitre and pastoral staff; St Paul (?) with a book; St Peter with keys and book & St Michael slaying the dragon with a sword. The figures are separated by conventional flowers and in the middle is a rebus formed by the letters W.H.Y. and a perspective view of a church with pinnacles of a monstrance between. The rebus is believed to refer to the name of Wiliam Whychurch, abbot of Hailes from 1464-1479 and the monstrance may be a reference to the relic of the Holy Blood of Hailes once venerated by pilgrims there.
All 3 vestments are of English work and appear to have been made in the second half of the 15c . It is believed to have come from Hailes Abbey after its 1532 Dissolution of the monasteries when such church vestments which were not destroyed were put to all sorts of common use. In its time it has served as an altar frontal and as a pall to cover coffins at funerals.- Church of St Michael , Buckland Gloucestershire
Buckland Gloucestershire
15c Buckland Pall is made from portions of 3 velvet vestments with embroidery executed in gold and silver thread with added coloured silks and spangles. flic.kr/p/2azFG4f
The centre part is made from a blue velvet cope worked with conventional flowers.
Part of the lower border is made from a vestment of red velvet embroidered with a representation of the crucifixion, the figures of BVM and St John, originally standing on either side, have been re- applied beneath the cross.
The upper border is made from the same vestment, and has figures of a bishop with mitre and pastoral staff; St Paul (?) with a book; St Peter with keys and book & St Michael slaying the dragon with a sword. The figures are separated by conventional flowers and in the middle is a rebus formed by the letters W.H.Y. and a perspective view of a church with pinnacles of a monstrance between. The rebus is believed to refer to the name of Wiliam Whychurch, abbot of Hailes from 1464-1479 and the monstrance may be a reference to the relic of the Holy Blood of Hailes once venerated by pilgrims there.
All 3 vestments are of English work and appear to have been made in the second half of the 15c . It is believed to have come from Hailes Abbey after its 1532 Dissolution of the monasteries when such church vestments which were not destroyed were put to all sorts of common use. In its time it has served as an altar frontal and as a pall to cover coffins at funerals.- Church of St Michael , Buckland Gloucestershire