Displaying objects from Robing Room

Cupboard - Cupboard - 16th c
A late 16th century large Oak cupboard with panelled sides, and linenfold panelled doors. A decorative lock plate and escutcheon.

Restoration Chair - Chair - 17th c
A Charles II walnut framed arm Dining chair having barley twist legs and stretchers, cane seat and back surmounted by typical restoration cresting rail. Decorative front stretcher missing. Circa 1680.

Chest - Furniture - 16th c
The 16th century Oak chest, the finely carved front panel with five arches enclosing in the centre a Knight and his Lady, flanked by winged cherubs and figures bearing heraldic shields. An elaborate steel triple lock plate.

Silver Galleon - Ship - 18th c
A Dutch silver mounted model of a galleon in full sail. 18th Century

Carved figure of a priest - Carving - 16th c
A 16th century Carved Oak Figure of a priest, wearing a dalmatic.

Horloge - Clock - 16th c
A continental iron skeleton framed clock, having two bells and an elaborate spire. 16th Century.

Padlock and key - Lock and Key - 17th c
A large Continental steel padlock and key. 17th Century.

Embroidered Chasuble - Religious artefact - 15th c
A pre-Reformation English embroidered Chasuble, the front having an orphrey worked with gold thread and coloured silks representing St. Matthew, St. Andrew and a nobleman. The reverse side having a similar orphrey, or embroidered Cross, representing The Almighty, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Lucy, St. Eustace and a nobleman. The whole embroidered on contemporary Italian silk velvet in shades of green.

Processional Cross - Religious artefact - 16th c
Processional Cross of Flemish origin. Mounted on modern standard.16th Century.

Needlepoint picture - Tapestry - 17th c
An early 17th century Needlework picture in a frame, depicting three figures in an arbour with an angle above.

Spanish walnut chair - Chair - 18th c
A Spanish walnut armchair with red velvet seat and back, plain uprights, arms and stretchers. 18th century.

Livery company Master's chair - Chair - 17th c
A Livery Company Master’s Chair, the central panel enclosing an armorial shield and the national emblem of Scotland. The back surmounted by another coat of arms within mantling. Carved and turned stretchers to the base. Mid 17th century.

Cardinal's Hat - Clothing - 16th c
A Cardinal’s Hat of red velvet and gold embellishments.

Triptych depicting St. Barbara and the angel Gabriel - Painting - 15th c
A triptych comprises of three panels with images on both sides of the two outer pieces which are hinged to open and close over the wider central panel. Altar pieces were often of this form and were a necessary element of the holy calendar. As events passed, different panels could be opened up, displaying the image behind. This triptych panel is highly decorated with carved trefoils and diamond shapes inset with contrasting coloured insets. The subject as a whole suits symmetry, and is therefore popular with triptychs using pairs of figures.This piece is only one of the three panels, hinges surviving on the right of St Barbara. St Barbara is actually the exterior, with a painted image of the Angel Gabriel on the inside. The carved gothic arches beneath which St Barbara is shown, frames her halo, and are intricately carved with filigree.St Barbara is depicted holding the chalice and wafer. No historical base exists for her existence, and what is known comes from the Golden Legend. Her father, a heathen nobleman named Dioscurus, incarcerated her in a tower to protect her from suitors. Upon her father discovering she had been baptised, she escaped and fled. A shepherd betrayed her hiding place and her father handed her over to the Roman authorities, who tortured her horribly. She was condemned to be executed by her father’s sword, who took her into the mountains to carry out the act. Immediately after her death, her father was stuck by lightening and burst in to flames. Her attributes of the chalice and wafer are symbolic of the last sacrament. The Angel Gabriel, the messenger of God, foretold the birth of John the Baptist, and the Virgin Mary, and popularly believed to have been the angel who foretold the birth of Christ and his resurrection. Gabriel’s dominant role in Christian art is that of the angel of the annunciation, in which his attribute of the sceptre tipped with the fleur-de-lys is represented in early Renaissance art, which became the lily in later art.

Carved bible box - Casket - 17th c
A 17th century carved oak Bible Box. The front panel depicting the Nativity.

Crusader Chest - Furniture - 12th c
A 12th century Oak chest with three locks of boarded construction on tall stiles with D. shaped cut out ornamentation. Iron bands and triple locks.

Floral Tapestry - Tapestry - 16th c
A Panel of Enghien tapestry with flowers and fruit amidst blue/green leaves. One original border at the top. Mid 16th Century.

Pewter Inkpot - Furniture accessory - 17th c
A Pewter inkpot on wide circular base.

Mother of Pearl Writing Desk - Furniture accessory - 17th c
A 17th century ebony and inlaid bone and mother of pearl Writing slope/table desk, with a drawer at each end.

Oak Monk's Bench - Furniture - 17th c
A mid 17th century oak Monks bench on baluster turned legs with plain stretchers. The circular back hinged to form a table top supported by the arm rails. The back-top not original

Ispahan Rug - Rug - 18th c
Persian hand knotted rug with a design of three diamonds among birds and flowers inside three narrow borders.

Brass Chandelier - Chandelier - 19th c
A Brass chandelier with 6 arms. Dutch.

Church history book - Book - 18th c
History Book of the Church. Dated 1705

Book Annales Baroni - Book - 17th c
Book "Annales Baroni"

Book Annales Baroni - Book - 17th c
Book "Annales Baroni"

Prayer book - Book - 17th c
Prayer Book donated by the representatives of the late Miss Margaret McCarthy

Gregorian Chant - Book - 17th c
A leather bound Gregorian Chant with two metal clasps and studded binding. 17th Century

Vestuta monumenta - Book - 17th c
Vestusta Monumenta, a Book depicting the Bayeux Tapestry with an assortment of other books letters W, R, L, V, K and B on window