Beryl Dean: Chasuble and stole (festal set)
Title: Chasuble and stole (festal set)
Artist: Beryl Dean (1911–2001, British), MBE
Location: All Saints, Newland (C of E)
Date: 1982
All Saints, Newland, known as the Cathedral of the Forest (of Dean), is in the Wye Valley. Thus Beryl Dean used imagery of foliage, fish, water weed and snails for this festal set. The detail and design are both meticulous and charming, and complement the architecture of this rural church.
Beryl Dean (1911–2001, British) trained at The Royal School of Needlework as well as at Bromley School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She is frequently credited with bringing ecclesiastical embroidery into the 20th century when its traditional styles and aesthetics were growing tired and anachronistic. She was a well-respected teacher and many of her students have designed and embroidered fine ecclesiastical textiles in their own right.
Further Information
Medium: Textile
Seasonal garment
See Dean’s chasuble and stole on the Ecclesiart map here.
Other artworks in churches by Beryl Dean: Altar frontal, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 1969; altar frontals, St Margaret’s, King’s Lynn, 1965 & 69; Hammersmith Cope and Mitre (designed by Susan Riley, see separate Ecclesiart entry), 1968; copes for Canterbury Cathedral, 1975–80; the Jubilee Cope, Diocese of London, 1977; Windsor panels, Rutland Chantry, Windsor Castle, 1974 and many more.