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Gifts and Religious Items

We have a range of general and religious gifts suitable for many occasions, including baptism, confirmation, wedding and ordination. We also offer gift vouchers.

The items listed here are a sample from our wider range.

 

Feature on Quality Christmas Cards:

Christmas is coming and the Bookroom is delighted to be able to feature a wide range of Christmas cards, designed to cater for all tastes and budgets. Follow the link to see some examples from this range.

Click Here to view the Christmas Cards...

Religious items:

Holding Crosses

Handmade and polished with natural oils. Australian Blackwood and Chestnut Leaved Oaks.
Price $27.00 (with or without a leather thong)

Crosses

Olivewood from Bethlehem,
plain crosses ranging in sizes from 8 - 30 cm,
priced from 55 cents to $27.50.

Holding Cross
Labyrinth Meditation

This labyrinth has been crafted to be as close as possible to the original labyrinth on the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France. It is made in Melbourne, from Jarrah, Sydney Blue Gum or Brushbox. It is 38 x 38 cm, and is designed for a person to sit with quietly and meditate while their finger follows the unicircal winding path of rings. It would be a fine piece of meditation in a Church or Chapel, or on a low table in an office or prayer room.

Price: $294.00.

Smaller travelling size: $197.00

Carved wooden meditation labyrinth

Icons

A variety of small and large icons. Depictions on the small icons include the Trinity, Christ Pantocrator 13th & 16th century, Mother of God of the Passion 16th century, Mother of God 15th century. Some of the saints depicted in a more modern series are St Therese Lisieux, Jeanne D'Arc, Hildegard of Bingen.

The larger icons feature mainly Christ and Madonna and Child, though many of the saints are available too.

Click here for images from the Icon range...

Prices range from $6.60 to $40.

Icon display in the Bookroom

Rosaries

Olivewood from Bethlehem, with crucifix or plain
Rosaries, handcrafted in Melbourne, with San Daminiano cross, $27.50


Meditation Range

All items are Melbourne products

The Meditation Range

Meditation Music (cd and balm and incense), $31.95

Blended with 12 ancient oils:

Soap, $5.95
Candle, $21.50
Incense, $8.95
Small Balm, $8.95
Essential Oil, $13.95
Body butter, $21.50


Gift Items from El Salvador

A wide range of decorated wooden crosses, plaques and other items are in stock.

Click Here to view the El Salvador Feature Page...


Cards and Stationery

Our cards come from many different places and include a selection from the Medici Society, London, and New Yorker cartoons. Here are examples of some others:

St Peter's Cards

Festal Cope

Festal Cope
St Nicholas white silk damask ground, blue velvet orphreys, and hood showing The Lamb of God embroidered in silks and gold thread.
Made by the Community of St Margaret, East Grinstead, 1928.
$2.50 each, with envelope.

Frontal Handfield Chapel

Frontal, Handfield Chapel
Embroidered altar frontal used in the Handfield Chapel.
$2.50 each, with envelope.

Latin Chasuble

Tapestry Chasuble
Gothic style latin machine tapestry chasuble
by an unidentified French worker, c1900-1910.
$2.50 each, with envelope.

Last Supper mosaic panel

Last Supper mosaic panel
Venetian mosaic of the Last Supper.
Installed above the High Altar in 1881.
$2.50 each, with envelope.

St Peter's Easter Hill

St Peter's Church, Eastern Hill and the
Melbourne Diocesan School 1850

By Charles Norton (1826 - 1872)
La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria.
$1.00 each


A selection from our range of Embossed Art Cards (Colcards, UK)

This is a range of embossed cards depicting motifs from English stoles and vestments. These cards make beautiful religious cards for all occasions, including Ordination and Confirmation.

  • Square Card: code M81, $6.50 each
  • Narrow Card: code M25, $4.95 each
Please quote this price code as well as the code under the card when ordering.


EH1

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Gloucester Angel

Gloucester Cathedral Angel


A further selection of Embossed Cards

St Agnes

A sample depicting St Agnes, made for the Sir Stuart Coats chasuble, designed by Sir Ninian Comper and embroidered in patterned couching, split stitch and or nue by the Sisters of Bethan, 1921. It is mounted on a Watts & C., Bellini silk damask originally designed by A.W.N. Pugin.
Copyright The Elizabeth Hoare Collection in Liverpool Cathedral Photography courtesy of George Schiffner
$6.50 each

Orphrey or silk stole

An Orphrey or Stole. Silk floss and twist; Japanese gold and convex angels; glass semi-globes; silk twist cord and fringe on a silk velvet backed with linen canvas.
English c. 1860-80
$4.95 each

Fine Ecclesiastical Embroidery

An example of fine English Ecclesiastical embroidery c 1840-1850
$6.50 each

Detail from a Stole

Detail from a Stole. This stole was probably intended for Advent. Split stitch with details added in French knots, raised and laid gold work and couching. The silk is a replica of a 14th century Luchese damask.
English c. 1890-1920
$4.95 each

Cope Hood Sample

A Cope Hood Sample. Applique in three colours with Japanese gold, silk cord and rayon fringe; on a cloth of gold. Unlined; designed by Keith Murray and worked by Watts and Co. Ltd.
English c. 1950
$6.50 each

Butterfly embroidery

Butterfly Embroidery. An Art Nouveau Embroidery featuring Butterfly motifs.
$6.50 each

Angel embroidered motif

An angel motif embroidered in about 1900-20, probably by an amateur as part of a larger project, never completed. It is mounted on a Watts & Co., green Bellini silk damask originally designed by A.W.N. Pugin.
Copyright the Elizabeth Hoare Collection in Liverpool Cathedral Photography courtesy of George Schiffner
$6.50 each


Special Features on Cards for Christmas and Easter

Click Here to view the Christmas Cards...

We also have a range of specialized Easter Cards, and a selection of cards based on Icons with an Easter theme.

Click Here to view the Easter Cards...

 

All prices are inclusive of GST.
Enquiries and orders can be emailed, faxed or telephoned through to the manager. Orders can also be submitted on-line by selecting the Contact Us option from the menu below.

 

Page last modified on Wednesday November 02, 2011


Manager: Carol O'Connor

Located at St Peter's Eastern Hill, Melbourne, Australia
Phone: (03) 9663 7487, Fax: (03) 9662 2400
Email: bookroom@stpeters.org.au