Delivered in the breath-taking surroundings of College Chapel, this talk by the Keeper of Silver at Eton College will look in detail at a series of plate bought or commissioned for use on the altars of Eton College Chapel.
Taken alongside Eton’s audit books and records, these extraordinary objects plot the history of the emerging Church of England over a period of religious strife and Civil War, and demonstrate how one institution reacted to the external forces of liturgical revolution.
Speaker: Shauna Gailey
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Picture: Elizabethan communion cup, silver-gilt, London, 1569, maker IP