The image has worn flat from polishing. It is of the best known story about St Martin in which the Roman soldier shared his cloak with a beggar. That night the beggar returned to him in a dream as ...

Made from white silk brocade and embroidered in rich silks, this banner has designs of roses, thistles, shamrocks and leeks – and in the centre, a figure of St Martin on horseback, dividing his cloak ...