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Ruffs remain part of the formal attire of bishops and other clergy in the Church of Denmark and the Church of the Faroe Islands and are generally worn for services. The Church of Norway removed the ruff from its clergy uniform in 1980, although some conservative priests, such as Børre Knudsen, continued to wear them.
Ruffs were popular in the sixteenth century, and remained so until the late 1640s, alongside the more fashionable standing and falling bands. Ruffs, like bands, were sewn to a fairly deep neck-band. They could be either standing or falling ruffs. [1] Standing ruffs were common with legal, and official dress till comparatively late.
The ruff is a large collar, stiffly starched, worn over the top of a full clerical collar. Until the 1980s, ... In the Church of Scotland, the mother church for the ...
The Church of England experienced a long controversy over the proper use of vestments. [7] In the 20th and 21st century, usual vestments for the Anglican church have included either cassock (a derivative of the tunic) and surplice, with scarf (tippet) or stole, or else the alb (with or without a cincture) and stole, often with a chasuble.
According to the Church of England's Enquiry Centre (citing the Glasgow Herald of December 6, 1894), [5] the detachable clerical collar was invented in 1865 by the Rev. Donald McLeod, a Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) minister in Glasgow. [6] [7] [8] By 1840, Anglican clergy developed a sense of separation between themselves and the secular ...
The church grew and later became the home of Daniel Ruff, a circuit rider of the Methodist Episcopal Church. [4] According to records at the Lovely Lane Methodist Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, the Church was part of the Darlington Methodist Charge, which included Darlington United Methodist Church and Rock Run United Methodist Church. Records ...
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Monumental brass of Margaret, Lady Camoys (d.1310), St George's Church, Trotton, West Sussex. This is the earliest surviving brass of a female figure in England. [ 1 ] She wears around her neck a wimple (or gorget) which hides the chin and sides of the face.