Coffin cover
- Description
- Originally a vestment worn by priests, this textile was saved during the Reformation in Exeter by changing its use to a coffin cover. It is made from silk, linen and canvas, embroidered with silver-gilt threads and silk, in green, yellow, red, blue and black.
- Accession Loan No.
- 102/1994
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Common Name
- coffin cover
- Simple Name
- textile
- Full Name
- coffin pall, vestment
- Dimensions
- whole W 1370 mm; whole height 2070 mm; whole depth 2 mm
- Period Classification
- Late Medieval (1400-1500)
- Production Year Low
- 1470
- Production Year High
- 1510
- Family Group
- Material
- textile; metal
- Collection Site Name
- St Mary Arches Church
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
