Sentences with phrase «abbey altarpiece»
«While some of the other objects in Riddle of the Image would have been cost the same as a farm or country home, the Westminster Abbey altarpiece would have cost no more than eight cows or about # 5 in 13th century money.
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Research into England's oldest medieval altarpiece — which for centuries provided the backdrop to Westminster Abbey coronations — has revealed that it cost no more than the rather unprincely equivalent of eight cows.