- Object type
- Metalwork
- Date
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Production: 1685
Modified: 1828 - Silversmith
- Richard William Atkins & William Nathaniel Somersall (active 1820s - 1830s)
- Subject(s)
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Ceremony
Religion and Devotion - Inscriptions
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obverse: St John Clerkenwell
obverse: This / staff and silver / head was made / At ye charge of / ye inhabitants of / ye east liberty of / St John of Jerusalem
reverse: William Jackson / George Godson / Churchwardens
reverse: Anno dom 1685 / Anno V Regni Regis / [?] / Jacobi Ang Primo
- Dimensions
- Height x width x depth: 94 x 94 x 373mm
- Materials and technique
- Silver
- Production place
- England
- Related place(s)
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Priory Church
Clerkenwell
London - Themes
- St John the Baptist in the Museum’s collections
- References
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Findlater, Julia, and Pamela Willis. Silver at St John's Gate: Maltese and other Silver in the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John. Museum of the Order of St John, 1990.
Pages 27 - 28
Catalogue number 113 - Catalogue number
- 542
St John the Baptist finial
This figure of St John the Baptist would have topped a staff that would have been processed and held during services in the Church of St John, now the Priory Church, in Clerkenwell. Originally made in 1685, more than 140 years later in 1828, the base was modified from a pear shape to the current square.