Yorkshire’s Christ

Lucy Creighton, curator of archaeology at the Yorkshire Museum, York, displays an “incredibly rare and extremely valuable” 800-year old gilded and enamelled figure of Christ from York’s St Mary’s Abbey, which has been purchased by the museum and returned to the county. The figure was made in Limoges, France, and belonged to the monks of the Abbey, surviving the Dissolution of the Monasteries of the 1530s.