Record ID: NLM-BDADB4
Object type: DIPTYCH (RELIGIOUS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead portable shrine or Calvary. Cast rectangular panel with a framed and recessed setting in architectural style,comprising a Perpendicular arch flanked by columns supporting a beaded canopy, with further vertical tracery behind. Two sub-rectangular spaces above and behind the canopy suggest further vertical tracery. This arrangement probably formed a setting for small figures modelled in three-quarter or full relief. Relict traces from behind the central figure suggest it to have been Christ crucified. What space remained housed a single figure on either side; probably the Virgin Ma…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th September 2020
Spatial data recorded.