The art of garnishing churches at Christmas and other times :
A Victorian manual from 1884 by Ernest Geldart, published in London by Cox and Buckley, for church decorators and parishes preparing churches for Christmas and other feasts. Its numbered plates show plain line drawings of Gothic-style window tracery, Christian monograms and symbols, carved crosses and rosettes, and altar frontals with floral garlands and lettering. A designer could draw on these as ready-made motifs for ecclesiastical borders, monograms, cross forms and seasonal foliage patterns.
