Record ID: LANCUM-6F19D5
Object type: PYX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small round container that is a silver pyx used to protect and transport the Blessed Sacrament. Pyx in Latin is pyxis is a transliteration of the Greek: πυξί meaning box-wood receptacle, these developed into small round container made of wood or silver used in the Catholic, Old Catholic and Anglican Churches to carry the consecrated host (Eucharist), to the sick or those otherwise unable to come to a church in order to receive Holy Communion. They were also associated with recusant Catholicism in post-Reformation England at the turn of the seventeenth century. The obv…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-58EB27
Object type: PYX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy gilded lid from a pyx, with Limoges-style enamelled decoration. It is formed from a conical piece of copper alloy; there is no joint evident. At the apex of the cone there is a spherical collar or orb, and a cross with flat front, back and sides; all of these have been made in one piece with the lid. The surface of the lid has been gilded both inside and out, but the interior gilding survives in a better condition. Below the cross and collar there is a deep band of gilding, below which there are four circles, each with an eight-pointed flower/star inside. The circl…
Created on: Friday 15th February 2008
Last updated: Monday 6th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Arncliffe', grid reference and parish protected.