Allerton Cope
A cope is a long cloak worn by a priest or bishop. The Allerton cope is made of silk and decorated with English embroidery in silver gilt and silk thread. The design includes figures of angels and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, when she was taken bodily into heaven after death. The cope may have belonged to John Gunthorpe (died 1498), the scholarly Dean of Wells. It was later converted into an altar frontal.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- TTNCM : 9684
- Collection Class
- Middle Ages
- Material
- linen, silk
- Common Name
- Allerton Cope
- Simple Name
- cope and altar cover
- Period Classification
- Medieval (AD 1066-1500)
- Production Country
- England
- Production Date
- 1450-1500
