Detail of a locket containing a lock of hair from Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, from Bury St Edmund Abbey, photographed at Moyse's Hall Museum

Date:
24 Jan 2023
Location:
Moyse's Hall Museum, Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk
Reference:
DP393278
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

Photographer's note: 'Lock of hair of Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, Queen of France and later Duchess of Suffolk. She was buried at Bury St Edmunds Abbey in 1533, her tomb moved to the parish church of St Mary's at the Dissolution, and in 1784 when her coffin was moved again, within St Mary's, workmen opened it and took locks of her hair. This is one of them.'

Content

This is part of the Job: 2K/31357 Objects from Moyse's Hall Museum, Cornhill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; within the Volume: VF000185 English Heritage/Historic England Collections and Object Photography; within the Series: HEC01/024 English Heritage/Historic England Collections; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Payne, Patricia: Historic England

Keywords

Museum