A chasuble of plum coloured velvet, the field powdered with various re-applied "Opus Anglicanum" motifs embroidered in coloured silks and metal threads, including fleur de lis, thistles, double headed eagles and seraphim, the orphreys similarly applied and worked with a Crucifixion scene on the centre back, with saints below and on the front including St. Peter and St. Paul, the embroidery late 15th/early 16th century, re-applied to a 20th century ground, some restorations and repairs, with similar stole, maniple and veil

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A chasuble of plum coloured velvet, the field powdered with various re-applied "Opus Anglicanum" motifs embroidered in coloured silks and metal threads, including fleur de lis, thistles, double headed eagles and seraphim, the orphreys similarly applied and worked with a Crucifixion scene on the centre back, with saints below and on the front including St. Peter and St. Paul, the embroidery late 15th/early 16th century, re-applied to a 20th century ground, some restorations and repairs, with similar stole, maniple and veil
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See pps. 42/43 and p.50 "Textiles in the Art Institute of Chicago", C. Thurman, 1992, for a cope which is embroidered with very similar motifs of double headed eagles and seraphim. This cope belonged to the Abbey of Whalley until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was then in the collection of Sir John Towneley (1473-1541), in whose family it remained until 1922 when it was sold at auction in London.

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