This film demonstrates how to make charcoal rubbings from the brass plates in St. Edith's 11th Century Church. The film includes footage of both the interior and exterior of the church. Title - Brasses The film opens with exterior shots of the church. A woman wearing a yellow jacket and blue jumper walks along the church path. She is carrying rolled up pieces of paper and enters the church. Inside the church, the woman removes a display of flowers from the windowsill. On the...

This film demonstrates how to make charcoal rubbings from the brass plates in St. Edith's 11th Century Church. The film includes footage of both the interior and exterior of the church. Title - Brasses The film opens with exterior shots of the church. A woman wearing a yellow jacket and blue jumper walks along the church path. She is carrying rolled up pieces of paper and enters the church. Inside the church, the woman removes a display of flowers from the windowsill. On the windowsill ledge is a brass engraving of three figures, and there is an inscription underneath. The woman uses a dry cloth to remove any dirt or dust from the brass. She then places a piece of paper over the brass and keeps it in place by weighing it down with hymnbooks. Next, she takes a black wax crayon and begins to rub it on the paper bringing out the shape of the first figure on the brass. To keep the lines around the rubbing straight, the woman uses her finger to follow the shape of the brass underneath the paper, and now and again rolls back the paper to see what part of the brass to draw over next. In the church, a candle is burning inside a glass candleholder attached to the wall. Daffodils are arranged in a display next to the stained glass window. The woman leans over the windowsill as she works. A variety of stained glass windows and flowers are shown from around the inside of the church. The woman, having completed the first figure, continues onto the second figure of the brass engraving. More examples of the church interior are captured including the pulpit, alter, and cross display. With all three figures of the brass engraving finished, the woman then makes a rubbing of the inscription underneath. When the rubbing is finished, the woman holds it up in front of the window to see her work. She then leaves the church through the doors. An English flag is flown from the top of the church roof, next to the weather vein. Church sign: Coates Hall Estates Ltd, Grange and Hall Farms, St Edith's 11th Century Church. The church is seen in the distance across the green fields. Inside the graveyard, there are many headstones laid out at the side of the path and next to the red brick wall. There is a close up of three head stones of members of the Motley family. This is followed by more footage of the exterior of the church. Inside the church the woman is leaning inside a cove in the wall where she is taking another brass wax rubbing. The film closes as the sunlight shines through two church windows. Title - Amen.