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Author: Maurice H. Ridgway Publisher: ISBN: 9781860774768 Category : Church plate Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Church silver has a practical as well as an aesthetic purpose. At the heart of Christian worship is a sacramental meal, which is traced back to Jesus’ final meal with his disciples. It involves eating and drinking, from a common loaf and a common cup. The use of precious metal discourages the transmission of infection, and allows for easy cleaning. It also encourages a worshipper to glimpse the precious gift which is received in a humble form. No accurate or authentic record of the church plate of the Diocese of Chester has been undertaken, with the exception of that on the churches of the City of Chester produced by T. Stanley Ball in 1907. Since then many of those city churches have been made redundant and some have been demolished, their plate distributed, lost or sold, making the task of tracing it particularly difficult. This survey has taken Maurice Ridgway over fifty years to complete. When he died, this work had reached final draft stage, and so is as Canon Ridgway wrote it. Its publication comes as a memorial and tribute to the scholar who did so much to put Chester silver firmly on the collector’s map.
Author: Maurice H. Ridgway Publisher: ISBN: 9781860774768 Category : Church plate Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Church silver has a practical as well as an aesthetic purpose. At the heart of Christian worship is a sacramental meal, which is traced back to Jesus’ final meal with his disciples. It involves eating and drinking, from a common loaf and a common cup. The use of precious metal discourages the transmission of infection, and allows for easy cleaning. It also encourages a worshipper to glimpse the precious gift which is received in a humble form. No accurate or authentic record of the church plate of the Diocese of Chester has been undertaken, with the exception of that on the churches of the City of Chester produced by T. Stanley Ball in 1907. Since then many of those city churches have been made redundant and some have been demolished, their plate distributed, lost or sold, making the task of tracing it particularly difficult. This survey has taken Maurice Ridgway over fifty years to complete. When he died, this work had reached final draft stage, and so is as Canon Ridgway wrote it. Its publication comes as a memorial and tribute to the scholar who did so much to put Chester silver firmly on the collector’s map.
Author: P. J. Boughton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
The Grosvenor Museumâe(tm)s silver has been described by Country Life as âe~one of the countryâe(tm)s finest collectionsâe(tm). Its greatest strength is Chester hallmarked, between c.1570 and 1992, spanning a wide range of uses. After the collectionâe(tm)s growth is set in the historical context of the developing scholarship of the subject, each piece is illustrated, described in detail and with a full background of the design evolution, its maker and ownership. An essential work of reference for all collectors and a rich source for students of the decorative arts and history of silver.
Author: Maurice H. Ridgway
Author: Maurice H. Ridgway
Author: T. Stanley Ball
Author: Edward Alfred Jones
Author: P. J. Boughton
Author: Chester Archaeological Society
Author: Francis Robert Raines
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Author: Chetham Society
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