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Easter Sepulchre for an unknown member of the Denys family, 16th century, in Holcombe Burnell Church, Devon. Renaissance classical elements are shown such as a classical pediment and Italianate putti, but the whole is contained within a late Gothic arch. An Easter Sepulchre is a feature of British church interior architecture.
Easter traditions include sunrise services or late-night vigils, exclamations and exchanges of Paschal greetings, flowering the cross, [2] the wearing of Easter bonnets by women, [3] clipping the church, [4] and the decoration and the communal breaking of Easter eggs (a symbol of the empty tomb).
Chancel flowers are often placed upon or adjacent to the altar table, as well as near other church furniture in the chancel, such as the baptismal font, lectern and pulpit. [ 2 ] Chancel flowers are sometimes dedicated to the memory of someone who has died by the purchasing family. [ 3 ]
A flowered cross in a parish church (2006) Flowering the cross is a Western Christian tradition practiced at the arrival of Easter, in which worshippers place flowers on the bare wooden cross that was used in the Good Friday liturgy, in order to symbolize "the new life that emerges from Jesus’s death on Good Friday".
A Paschal candle is a large candle used in liturgies in Western Christianity (viz., the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, and the Methodist Churches, among others). A new Paschal candle is blessed and lit every year at Easter.
An altar cross veiled during Holy Week. Lenten shrouds are veils used to cover crucifixes, icons and some statues during Passiontide [1] [2] with some exceptions of those showing the suffering Christ, such as the stations of the Via Crucis or the Man of Sorrows, with purple or black cloths begins on the Saturday before the Passion Sunday.