This morning we were off to Bury St. Edmunds. Bury does not mean the place that St. Edmunds is buried. It is a shortened form of borough; thus it is the Borough of St. Edmunds. It can just as easily be St. Edmundsbury and we saw the name done both ways.
We visited the Cathedral where they have some lovely embroidered vestments,
some old and new tapestries
and more than 1,000 needlepointed kneelers.
The Cathedral has a rather large diocese, and, when they decided to get kneelers, they asked the 500 churches in the diocese to create 2 kneelers each. The churches were glad to be able to do this, and the cathedral didn't have to bear the cost of all 1,000. What a great idea!
Each kneeler follows the same basic pattern: dark blue below, light blue above with a Y-shape across the center of the pillow. Other than that, each church did individual designs that had local meanings. Then the church/town name was across the bottom. With such design leeway, there is a lot of variation and no duplication unless the same design was done twice by a church.
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