ST BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH, BRIGHTON

 

Church Vestments

 

  Vestments Restored and New

 St. Bartholomew’s may be old, but the tradition of church vestments
goes back to the early days of the Christian Church.

Today’s vestments, examples of stunning design and execution, are adaptations of garments worn all those centuries before and which have been 
developed and beautified for liturgical use today.

Each one tells a story and is a timeless work of art.

Marion Cantrell,
a noted authority on and practitioner of this rare craft
of vestment restoration
and who this year celebrates 40 years of dedicated work in this field,
gave a series of 20-minute talks at St Bartholomew's
between the 18th and 25th August 2008.


This coincided with a unique exhibition of early 20th century vestments
and banners which have been restored at St Bartholomew's.

 Visitors were shown rare materials which have been hand-crafted and were
also able to watch St. Bartholomew’s Broderers
working on a new commission.


 Each talk concentrated on a specific vestment or banner:

      Monday 18 August - Agnus Dei Banner

      Tuesday 19 August - Red High Mass Set

      Wednesday 20 August - St. Agatha’s Banner

      Thursday 21 August - Tudor Rose High Mass Set

      Friday 22 August - St Bartholomew's School Banner

      Saturday 23 August - White High Mass Set

      Monday  25 August - New Green High Mass Set

 

  In association with the exhibition and
Marion Cantrell's work in the field of vestment restoration,
on Monday 8 September, at 7.30 pm,
on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
a solemn High Mass will be celebrated at St. Bartholomew’s
with the choir from St. Mary’s Church, Ringmer.

 

We present the following

photographs

of the vestments

and banners,

taken during the exhibition.


White High Mass set

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                                              White High Mass Set.
                 Chasuble, Dalmatic and Tunicle restored in 1994.


White High Mass Set Cope

 

 

Cope

 

For the White High Mass Set.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 Tudor Rose High Mass Set

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                   Tudor Rose High Mass Set.
                          Chasuble and Dalmatic restored by
                           Bennie Hitch and Marion Cantrell.


Black High Mass Set

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                                Black High Mass Set.
                                   Chasuble and Dalmatic restored by Keith Biddle.
                                 New Black Cope made by Marion Cantrell retaining
                              the embroidered Hood.


Red High Mass Set

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




                                             Red High Mass Set.
                   Cope, Chasuble and Dalmatic restored in 1992.



Purple High Mass Set

 

 

 

 

Chasuble and
Dalmatic

for the

Purple High Mass Set.

 

 

 

 

 



New Millennium ChasubleDalmatic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


                                          Dalmatic and Chasuble.
             Made by Keith Biddle for the new Millennium in 2000.


Blessed Virgin banner

 

 

 

 

The Blessed Virgin Banner

 

Embroidered 

  

 

 

 

 

 


Agnus Dei banner

 

 

 

Agnus Dei Banner

 

 Embroidered

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 St Bartholomew banner

 

 

 St Bartholomew Banner

 

This is not one of  our
embroidered banners
but is a painting on material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Four Angels Banner

 

 

 

The

Four Angels

Banner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



St Agathas Banner

 

 

 

 

The

St Agatha

Banner

 

 

 

 

 

 


St Bartholomews School Banner

 

 

St Bartholomew's

School Banner.

 

School logo embroidered
by Rhona Boudier.

Patchwork making-up by
St Bartholomew's Broderers.

Back embroidered by
members of
St Peter's Vestry Sewing Guild
Bexhill.