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Medieval Wall Painting
in the
English Parish Church
Subject Index G-K
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- Gabriel, archangel:
- Annunciation, Barnby
- Annunciation, Bradwell Abbey
- Annunciation, Gisleham
- Annunciation, Little Melton
- Annunciation, Martley
- Annunciation, Pinvin
- Annunciation, Slapton
- Annunciation, South Newington
- Annunciation, Tarrant Crawford
- Annunciation, Faversham
- Annunciation, Fring
- Annunciation, Hardham
- Annunciation of the Virgin’s Death, Broughton
- Gaming; Warning to Swearers/Sabbath Breakers
- Gathering of the Apostles for the Funeral of the Virgin Mary Cold Overton
- Genesis; St Christopher – Haddiscoe; Doom – Bradfield; Scenes from: Genesis scenes, Intro
- geometrical borders; Passion Cycle – Peakirk
- George, St:
- Gerningham family; see Jerningham
- gibbet, with hanged figure; in Doom, Oddington
- Giffard, Thomas, arms of; Virgin & Child – South Newington
- girlhood of St Margaret; Life of St Margaret – Wendens Ambo
- Gisleham: Annunciation – Gisleham; Virgin Blessing St Walstan of Bawburgh
- Giving Drink to the Thirsty:
- Gluttony; Seven Deadly Sins – Raunds; Seven Deadly Sins – Hessett
- gold leaf, lapis lazuli costlier than; Medieval Wall Painting; Short Intr.
- Godshill Isle of Wight; Christ Crucified on a Lily
- Godiva, Lady, possibly commemorated at Holy Trinity, Coventry
- Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine:
- ‘gorgeous robe’ Passion Cycle – Lt.Easton; Warning to Sabbath Breakers – Oaksey
- Gospels; Passion Cycle Intr.
- Goxhill, Lincolnshire; Detached Crucifixion, Contents; Crucifixion, Goxhill
- Great Harrowden, Beds; Doom Contents; Doom – Gt. Harrowden
- Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire; Doom – Great Shelford
- Great Tew, Essex; Passion Cycle Intr; Passion Cycle – Gt.Tew
- Gregory the Great, Saint & Pope; Mass of St Gregory – Slapton; on images; Seven Deadly Sins, Introduction; Annunciation – Chalgrove
- Grim, Edward (chaplain to Thomas Becket); Murder of Thomas Becket – Marston Magna; Murder of Becket – South Burlingham; Murder of Thomas Becket – South Newington; Murder of Thomas Becket – North Stoke
- Grundisburgh, Suffolk; St Christopher – Slapton
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- Haddiscoe, Norfolk; St Christopher – Contents ; St Christopher – Haddiscoe, Edingthorpe
- Hales, Norfolk; St James the Great – Hales
- Handcart, or wheelbarrow, as transport to Hell; Bacton – Doom; Yaxley – Doom
- hands, veiled when handling sacred objects; Genesis scenes – Easby; SSt Peter & Paul, Idsworth
- Hardham, Sussex; The Fall & its Aftermath – Hardham; Annunciation, Visitation & Nativity scenes – Hardham; Adoration of the Magi/Joseph's Dream/Dream of the Magi – Hardham;Flight into Egypt/Fall of the Idols/Dispute with the Doctors/Baptism of Christ
- Hardley Street, Norfolk; St Catherine – Hardley Street
- Harrowing of Hell:
- Hauxton, Cambridgeshire; St Thomas Becket – Hauxton
- Heaven; Doom Intr; Doom – Bradfield, Gt.Harrowden; Weighing of Souls – Slapton
- Helena, St; Broughton, Bucks – St Helena
- Hell, Hell Mouth, Hell – Creature; Passion Cycle – Lt.Witchingham; Doom Intr; Doom – Bradfield, Gt.Harrowden; Seven Works of Mercy Intr; Warning against Idle Gossip, Intr.
- Hemblington, Norfolk; St Christopher, with contextual scenes
- hennin or steeple headress; Herod's Feast – Pickering
- Henry VIII, King of England, attitude to Thomas Becket; Murder of Becket – South Burlingham
- Hermit, hermyte; St Christopher, Intr; ‘A Printer’s Preface’; St Christopher – Shorwell; Molesworth; Pickering; Littlebourne; Impington
- Hermogenes; pagan magician, defeated by St James the Great Life of St James – Stoke Orchard
- Herod; Passion Cycle – Lt.Easton; Nativity scenes – Corby Glen; Magi before Herod – Brook; in Herod’s Feast Chalfont St Giles; Heydon; Idsworth; Pickering; Cerne Abbas, with Herodias & John the Baptist; Coombes, with attendants
- Herodias, wife of Herod; Herod’s Feast, with Salome – Heydon; Herod’s Feast, with Salome, Chalfont St Giles; Idsworth; Cerne Abbas; Pickering
- Hessett, Suffolk Warning to Sabbath-Breakers; Seven Deadly Sins; St Barbara
- Heydon; Adoration of the Magi; Herod’s Feast, with Salome; Three Living & Three Dead; Unidentified female saint
- Hirst, Elizabeth, restoring painting at Castor
- Holbein, Hans; St Christopher, Short Intr;
- Holkham Hall Bible, paintings at Croughton similar to; Flight into Egypt – Croughton; compared to painting at Ilketshall
- Hope (as Cardinal Virtue), see ‘Spes’
- Horley, Oxfordshire; St Zita – Horley; St Christopher – Horley
- Hornton, Oxfordshire; Pietà (Our Lady of Pity) – Hornton, St George & Dragon – Hornton
- Horseman of the Apocalypse; Christ in Majesty – Clayton
- Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire Christ in Majesty – Houghton Conquest
- Houghton-on-the-Hill, Norfolk; Home Page; Apostles with scrolls – Houghton-on-the-Hill
- household articles; St Zita – Horley
- Hoxne, Suffolk; Seven Deadly Sins, Hoxne; Seven Works of Mercy – Hoxne
- Hypatia of Alexandria, St Catherine legend possibly based on; St Catherine – Old Weston
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- Jairus’s daughter, raising of; Brook (Kent), Copford
- James, apocryphal Book of; Nativity – Corby Glen
- James, Apostle & Saint; Passion Cycle – Crostwight; St James the Great – Hales; Christ in Majesty – Kempley; as pilgrim Wisborough Green; Yelden (or Yielden); Life of Stoke Orchard
- Jan van Beverley, story of; The Legend of the Hairy Anchorite – Idsworth
- Jerningham (Gerningham) family, of North Suffolk, woman donor perhaps member of; Doom – North Cove
- Jerome, St; Doom Intr.
- Jerome of Nevers, bishop, later saint; his interpretation of Charlemagne’s Dream; Charlemagne’s Dream – Hardwick
- Jesse, father of King David; see Tree of Jesse
- John, Apostle & Saint:
- John, Gospel according to; Passion Cycle – Fairstead, Lt.Witchingham
- John Rylands library; St Christopher – Introduction
- John the Baptist; Baptism of Christ – Black Bourton; Baptism of Christ – Cerne Abbas; Beheading of John the Baptist – Old Weston; in Herod’s Feast Heydon; Chalfont St Giles; Idsworth; in Doom Doom – Chelsworth; Doom – North Cove; Doom – Rotherfield; Doom – Wenhaston; commemorated on font at Sth. Burlingham
- John (Saint) of Beverley; Legend of the Hairy Anchorite – Idsworth
- Joseph of Arimathea; Passion Cycle – Brook (Kent); Passion Cycle – North Cove; Deposition – Bardwell
- Joseph, St, husband of Mary; Nativity – Corby Glen; Flight into Egypt – Croughton; Adoration of the Magi, Salisbury (St Thomas); Nativity/Annunciation to Shepherds – Ashampstead
- Journey of the Magi/Magi before Herod; Infancy Cycle – Brook
- Joseph's Dream; Joseph's Dream/Adoration of the Magi/Dream of the Magi – Hardham;
- Joust, allegorical; Claverley
- Judas Iscariot; Passion Cycle – Fairstead; Ickleton, Lt.Easton, Lt.Tey, North Cove; North Stoke; Last Supper – Friskney ; his suicide; Suicide of Judas – Breamore; Suicide of Judas – Slapton; Suicide of Judas – Gussage St Andrew
- Judgement – see ‘Doom’
- Julitta, saint, mother of St Cyriacus; Charlemagne’s Dream – Hardwick
- Junius II (Bodleian Library MS); The Fall & its Aftermath – Hardham
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