Huge Quilt on display

The ‘Church Schools’ Quilt’, which was blessed by the Bishop of Huntingdon, Dr David Thomson, at the recent Schools Cathedral Days is on display in Ely Cathedral.

The Schools Cathedral Days were held in Ely Cathedral to commemorate both two hundred years of the National Society and four hundred years of the King James Bible.

The Quilt is a beautifully crafted piece of needlework made up of eighty squares, and so long (twenty-one feet) it eventually had to be created in three pieces rather than as one single quilt.

Each square was designed and created by the pupils of a Diocese of Ely church school and is a striking snapshot of life across the Diocese in this celebration year.

3rd November 2011