Sculpture Journal
‘An unrivalled brass Lectorium’: the Cloisters lectern and the Gothic Revival in England
Abstract
The Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s outpost for medieval art, houses an elaborate brass eagle lectern made in the Netherlands in c. 1500. Purchased in 1968 from Oscott College, it had previously been in St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, a key site of the Gothic Revival in England. This article examines the Cloisters lectern’s sojourn in Victorian Britain, beginning with its arrival on the London art market and publication in