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# ✨ Treasure Hoard: The Sutherland Tapestry, Coventry Cathedral
- URL: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/treasure-hoard-the-sutherland-tapestry-coventry-cathedral/
- Published: 2026-09-02T14:34:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-02T14:42:08.000Z
- Description: Photographing the textile was unadulterated bliss - a process by which, at the end of it, I felt as though the tapestry had been woven into my mind through the lens of the camera.
- Author: Andy  Marshall
- Tags: Treasure, sutherland tapestry, coventry cathedral, coventry, #treasure-77, west midlands

**The tapestry of Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph, by Graham Sutherland, is said to be the largest of its kind in the world, and has been at Coventry Cathedral since its consecration in 1962.**

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2026/09/Coventry-Cathedral16.jpg)

In 2015, the Sutherland tapestry underwent a detailed condition survey including in situ cleaning and minor repairs to the supporting system. I was asked to photograph the tapestry during conservation. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2026/09/original--5-.jpg)

Photographing the textile was unadulterated bliss - a process by which, at the end of it, I felt as though the tapestry had been woven into my mind through the lens of the camera. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2026/09/Coventry-Cathedral6.jpg)

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The Sutherland Tapestry is roughly the size of a tennis court

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/production/photos/ke2z0hplluhpjppkad551m5iunq03otlrg07/original.jpg)

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After conservation was completed, I was commissioned to photograph the tapestry to provide archival records.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/production/photos/ss22o3te8m1gx29jle96l68l2h3u27kwps4u/original.jpg)

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