RepositoryCheshire Record Office
LevelPiece
ReferenceZCR 119/1079/19/p62
TitlePhotograph: St Werburgh's Throne.
Date1903
DescriptionThe shrine was carried about in times of danger and was once set on the Walls to save the city from the attacks of the Welsh. In 1480 Bradshaw a monk of St Werburgh's monastry said:'a great fire, sufficient to destroy all Chester, ceased when the holy shrine was borne about the town. At one time the shrine found aq temporary resting place (continues on page 63)
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