Click onThumbnail
for
3 photos
Inscribed:—
Donated to Hexham Abbey by Constance Wallace in loving memory of her beloved husband Leslie who died 12th July 1995.
Made of ‘hammered’ metal (stainless steel?) in the arts-and-crafts tradition by K|MC of Keswick.
The design of three circling fish is at once a reminder of the miracle of Christ's feeding of the five thousand with barley loaves and ‘a few small fishes’ and also of persecuted early Christians who used the fish as a symbol of Christ because the two initial letters of fish in Greek were ‘IC’ stood for Jesus Christ.
HEXAB2078
Dish of hammered craft-work, with three fish at the centre.
Inscription in small letters on the underside of the large dish
| DONATED TO HEXHAM ABBEY | |
| BY CONSTANCE WALLACE | |
| IN LOVING MEMORY OF | |
| MY BELOVED HUSBAND LESLIE | |
| WHO DIED 12TH JULY 1995 |