Medieval Wall Painting
in the
English Parish Church

• Home Page
• A Short Introduction to Medieval Wall Painting in the English Parish Church
• County Map/Location List with access details
• Extensive subject index with internal Links:
  • A-C
  • D-F
  • G-K
  • L-R
  • S-Z
• Links, Locations, etc.
• Bibliography & Further Reading

Main Sections

• Very Early wall painting in England – up to 1200
  • The Saxon Rood at Breamore & its associated (later?) painting

• Scenes from Genesis: Introduction & links to individual examples
  • The Tree of Jesse

• The Passion Cycle: Introduction & links to individual examples
  • The ‘Detached’ Crucifixion
  • Single Passion Scenes (Scenes Ancillary to the Passion Cycle, Other New Testament Incidents and ‘Devotional’ Paintings)
    • Bardwell, The Deposition
    • Boughton Aluph, The Trinity
    • Breamore, The Suicide of Judas
    • Brent Eleigh, The Harrowing of Hell
    • Brook, The Raising of Lazarus/Raising of Jairus’s daughter
    • Copford, The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter
    • Friskney, The Last Supper
    • Hornton, Pietà
    • Risby, Appearance to Mary Magdalene
    • Rotherfield, The Incredulity of Thomas
    • Slapton, The Suicide of Judas
    • Slapton, The Mass of St Gregory
    • South Newington, The Instruments of the Passion

• Secular Subjects: The Labours of the Months, Easby
  • Paintings in secular buildings:
    • Longthorpe Tower (East Wall)
    • Longthorpe Tower (North Wall)

• The Doom, or Last Judgement, & The Weighing of Souls: Introduction & links to individual examples
• The Infancy & Early life of Christ: Introduction & links
• The Life of the Virgin (including Annunciation paintings): Introduction & Links
• St Christopher: Introduction & links
• The Saints (excluding the Virgin Mary & Christopher): Introduction & links

• The Morality Painting:
  • The Seven Works of Mercy
  • The Seven Deadly Sins
  • The Three Living and the Three Dead
  • The Warning to the Sabbath-breakers and The Warning To Swearers
  • The Warning Against Idle Gossip
  • A related subject: the Allegory of souls at Swanbourne

• Special Cases and Unclassifiable Subjects:
  • Women and Devils at Melbourne, Derbyshire – A Special Case
  • The Legend of the Hairy Anchorite at Idsworth, Hampshire – A Very Special Case
  • Charlemagne’s Dream of St Cyriacus at Hardwick, Cambridgeshire
  • The Wheel of Fortune at Ilketshall, Suffolk
  • Man holding a triptych with the Virgin & Child and the Trinity, Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire
  • The Pelican in its Piety, Belchamp Walter, Suffolk
  • Agnus Dei, in a Ouroborus, Duxford, Cambridgeshire

• Painted Backgrounds, Inscriptions & Texts