An English Pre-Reformation Processional Cross at the Bar Convent, York

Abstract

Only a handful of processional crosses survived the English Reformation. A bronze cross in the museum of the Bar Convent, York, should be added to the corpus of surviving material. The exact provenance of the cross is unknown, but is likely to have survived because of its ownership by a Catholic gentry family.

Keywords:

• medieval
• metalwork
• processional cross
• Bar Convent
• Reformation
• Catholicism

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Michael Carter

Michael Carter was recently awarded his PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, for his thesis on the art and architecture of the Cistercians in northern England in the late Middle Ages.