Photograph: Gloucester candlestick

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Gloucester candlestick, carved and chased gilt bronze, 12th century. In the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Height 58 cm.

Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum

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metalwork : England (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Casting in bronze reached high perfection in England during the Middle Ages. The most remarkable of the sanctuary rings, or knockers, that exist at Norwich and elsewhere is that on the north door of the nave of Durham cathedral, from the first half of the 12th century. The Gloucester candlestick ...

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