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About this object

  • ID:

    35.51a

  • Production date:

    Late Medieval; late 15th century

  • Location:

    In Store

  • This partition framed the inner door within the western entrance of the church of St Ethelburga-the-Virgin. The church porch served an important function for the community. It was the setting for marriages and religious plays; the place for 'churching' or blessing a woman after childbirth; a place of penance, a place to collect and distribute alms to the poor, and a space for legal transactions and a venue for business. In the early 1500s the congregation at St Ethelburga's raised extra revenue for their parish by developing the porch and renting it out for 'a little shop'. The spandrels contain the faces of a man and a lion, the emblems of St Matthew and St Mark, and it is possible that there was a matching door frame for the outer porch incorporating the symbols of the other two Evangelists, St Luke and St John.

  • Measurements

    H 2477 mm; W 2300; D 140 mm (overall)

  • Materials

    wood

  • Rights Credit

    Image courtesy of St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

  • Last Updated

    2024-03-14

FURTHER INFORMATION
  • NUMBER OF ITEMS

    2

  • STATUS

    long-term loan

  • CREDIT

    On loan from St Ethelburga's Centre

  • COPYRIGHT HOLDER

    St Ethelburga's Church

  • Related place

    City of London (found)

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