Courtrai Chest

The Courtrai Chest is a oak chest which incorporates Medieval carvings depicting scenes from the Franco-Flemish War and, in particular, the Battle of the Golden Spurs at Kortrijk (Courtrai) in Flanders.

The chest is among the few surviving contemporaneous depictions of those historically-significant events.

[1] This bears carvings in relief illustrating episodes from the Franco-Flemish War (1297–1305) from the Bruges Matins (13 May 1302) to the Battle of the Golden Spurs (11 July 1302).

Found by Warden of the College, William Archibald Spooner, on a "Warden's Progress", it was in a barn of a college tenant where it was used as a feed bin for animals.

This reproduction comprises a reconstruction of the whole chest including the stiles or legs supporting it, as would have been present in its original form, but are missing from the remains of the original.