Article: Weekend: Archive: Is the Holy Grail on our doorstep?; Chris Upton takes up the legendary search for the Holy Grail and asks if eternal life can be found in Selly Oak.(Features)

Byline: Chris Upton

The Grail tapestries of Edward Burne-Jones, now on show at Gas Hall, are among the most prized possessions of Birmingham's Art Gallery.

The strange and mystical quest for the Holy Grail has inspired writers and artists from the early Middle Ages to the Victorians, and the current exhibition of the tapestries shows just how mystical the PreRaphaelites could get.

The images, as conceived by Burne-Jones and woven by Morris & Co in the late 1880s, depict the search for the Grail by King Arthur's knights. It was only permitted to ...

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