Elizabethan Flagons from St Mary Woolnoth Exhibition
Victoria and Albert Museum
Now through 29 June 2008
The City Church of St Mary Woolnoth
These beautifully engraved flagons were acquired for the medieval church of St Mary Woolnoth in 1697. The name may derive from the wool market which was held nearby in medieval times.
The church was rebuilt to the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor between 1716-1727; the only City church by that architect.
It is the official City church for the Government of British Columbia. In the 1930s a Lord Mayor of the City of London lent one of the flagons to Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia.
This display celebrates its return after seventy years abroad.
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