Between 1935 and 1948, three devotional paintings, all Italian and from the fifteenth century, were installed in London’s Westminster Abbey. While these pictures are individually well known to art historians, it has yet to be asked how and why they came to be displayed in the modern church. This paper reconstructs that history and interrogates the motivations of those involved. It also asks what liturgical functions, if any, were assigned to these erstwhile Roman Catholic objects in their adopted Anglican surroundings. The findings show that a confluence of antiquarian sensibilities, a specific vein of Anglicanism, and patronal motivations that recall the original commissioning of these works of art, all came to bear on what were remarkable episodes in the afterlives of these pictures and in the history of Westminster Abbey.

1935 年至 1948 年间，三幅虔诚的画作，全部来自意大利，来自 15 世纪，被安装在伦敦的威斯敏斯特教堂。虽然这些图片对于艺术史学家来说是众所周知的，但它们是如何以及为什么在现代教堂中展示的还有待追问。本文重构了这段历史，并询问了相关人员的动机。它还询问在其采用的英国国教环境中，这些昔日的罗马天主教物品被分配了哪些礼仪功能（如果有的话）。研究结果表明，古代情感的汇合、英国国教的特定脉络以及回想起这些艺术作品最初委托制作的赞助动机，都对这些照片的来世和历史上的非凡事件产生了影响。威斯敏斯特修道院。