Occurring
for 4 days, 3 hours
Tuesday 21 May to Saturday 25 May 10-5 (10-1pm Saturday)
Free Exhibition (St Mary's Church, 30 Bourne St, London SW1W 8JJ)
"Vestment and Flower Festival: The Play's the Thing"
St Mary's Bourne Street will explore the theme of "liturgy as theatre" as we host a Festival of Flowers and Vestments to celebrate our 150th anniversary.
The church will be cleared of pews and filled with spectacular flower displays alongside an exhibition of historic floral-themed vestments, which are worn by the clergy throughout the religious year. These include sumptuous brocades, silks, satins, gold-embroidered textiles and rare pre-Reformation garments from the 15th century.
The festival will examine how theatre, with its playful language of colour, costume and metaphor, informs our richly expressive Anglo-Catholic services.
It will also convey how flowers, from lily-of-the-valley to roses and hyssop, allude to Biblical teachings and express a profound sense of the sacred.
Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 May 10am-5pm; Saturday 25 May 10am-1pm.
Free Exhibition (St Mary's Church, 30 Bourne St, London SW1W 8JJ)
"Vestment and Flower Festival: The Play's the Thing"
St Mary's Bourne Street will explore the theme of "liturgy as theatre" as we host a Festival of Flowers and Vestments to celebrate our 150th anniversary.
The church will be cleared of pews and filled with spectacular flower displays alongside an exhibition of historic floral-themed vestments, which are worn by the clergy throughout the religious year. These include sumptuous brocades, silks, satins, gold-embroidered textiles and rare pre-Reformation garments from the 15th century.
The festival will examine how theatre, with its playful language of colour, costume and metaphor, informs our richly expressive Anglo-Catholic services.
It will also convey how flowers, from lily-of-the-valley to roses and hyssop, allude to Biblical teachings and express a profound sense of the sacred.
Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 May 10am-5pm; Saturday 25 May 10am-1pm.
St Mary's Church: Vestment and Flower Festival
21 May 2024, 10 a.m. for 4 days, 3 hours
St Mary's Church: Vestment and Flower Festival
21 May 2024, 10 a.m. for 4 days, 3 hours