Allerton Cope
- Description
- A cope is a long cloak worn by a priest or bishop. The Allerton cope is made of silk and decorated with English embroidery in silver gilt and silk thread. The design includes figures of angels and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, when she was taken bodily into heaven after death. The cope may have belonged to John Gunthorpe (died 1498), the scholarly Dean of Wells. It was later converted into an altar frontal.
- Accession Loan No.
- TTNCM : 9684
- Simple Name
- cope and altar cover
- Collection Country
- England
- Common Name
- Allerton Cope
- Production Country
- England
- Material
- linen, silk
- Period Classification
- Medieval (AD 1066-1500)
- Collection Class
- Middle Ages
- Collection Contintent
- Europe
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Production Date
- 1450-1500
- Collection Parish
- Chapel Allerton
- Collection Town
- Chapel Allerton
- Collection County
- Somerset
- Collection Site Name
- Allerton Church
- On Display
- Museum of Somerset
- Created At
- 2016-05-07 16:52:25
- Updated At
- 2016-05-07 16:52:25
