Lectern, c15th century? mb-code AAKV001042 Half-length portrait of John Smeaton

Half-length portrait of John Smeaton seated at a writing table

Brunnhilde sees Siegfried and also falls in love

with the label 'NEW'

Burch was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900

on 10 March 1863

Lectern, c15th century? mb-code AAKV001042 Half-length portrait of John SmeatonLectern, c15th century?, (1843). This item was dragged out of the lake at Newstead c 1750. It is believed to have been thrown into the lake at the time when the dissolution of the monasteries was first threatened. It was made of brass and composed of several pieces; the boss was found to contain parchments. It would have been used to read the litany in the chapel of Newstead Abbey. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the