Medieval Wall Painting
in the
English Parish Church

Subject Index L-R

L

• Labours of the Months; Labours of the Months – Easby; Apostle or Prophet – Little Easton
• Lady Mede; Seven Deadly Sins, Raunds
• Lakenheath, Suffolk; St Edmund – Lakenheath
• lamprey St Christopher, Ashby St Ledgers
• Lance, used by Longinus at Crucifixion; Passion Cycle Introduction; Passion Cycle – Crostwight, North Cove, Peakirk
• Lance, as Instrument of Passion; Doom – Gt.Harrowden
• Langland, William; Seven Deadly Sins, Raunds
• lapis lazuli, costlier than gold leaf; Medieval Wall Painting: Short Intr.
• Last Day; Doom Intr.
• Last Fifteen Days of the World; Doom Intr.
• Last Supper; Passion Cycle – Crostwight, Fairstead, Flamstead, Ickleton , Little Easton, Little Tey, North Cove, North Stoke; Wissington; Friskney
• Lathbury, Buckinghamshire Seven Works of Mercy (Burying the Dead) – Lathbury; Virgin intervening at the Judgement – Lathbury
• Launcells, Cornwall The Sacrifice of Isaac
• Laurence, St Passion Cycle – Ickleton
• Lazarus, Raising of; Brook (Kent)
• Layer Marney, Essex St Christopher
• Legenda Aurea (see Legend, Golden)
• Legend, Golden Passion Cycle Intr; St Christopher, Introduction; ‘A Printer’s Preface’ – Caxton’s Story of St Christopher
• Legend of the Hairy Anchorite Idsworth, Hampshire
• Lenham, Kent Weighing of Souls – Lenham
• Lenten Veil; rings for still extant at Fritton;Martyrdom of St Edmund – Fritton
• Leo, Brother, companion of St Francis of Assisi; St Francis preaching to the birds – Wissington
• Leofric, Earl, possibly commemorated at Holy Trinity, Coventry
• ‘Levedye for thy Joys five…’ Life of the Virgin (Assumption) – Broughton
• Lily, Lily-pot, symbolic; ; Annunciation – Little Melton; Annunciation – Slapton; Annunciation – South Newington; Annunciation – Tarrant Crawford; Visitation – Salisbury (St Thomas)
• lime plaster; Medieval Wall Painting: Short Intr.
• Lindisfarne, Northumberland; Scenes from the Life of St Cuthbert – Pittington
• Linkinhorne, Cornwall Seven Works of Mercy
• Lion, overcome by David ; David (King of Judah/Israel) overcoming Lion
• liripipe headdress; Seven Works of Mercy – Linkinhorne
• Litlington, Nicholas de, Abbot of Westminster, his offering for a sick hawk; Virgin suckling Christ Child – Belchamp Walter
• Littlebourne, Kent St Christopher
• Little Easton, Essex; Passion Cycle, Introduction; Passion Cycle – Little Easton; Apostle or Prophet – Little Easton
• Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire; Seven Deadly Sins, Intr.
• Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire; St George, with the princess; St Francis preaching to the birds; Man holding triptych with Trinity & other scenes
• Little Melton, Norfolk; Annunciation – Little Melton; Warning against Idle Gossip – Little Melton
• Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire; Crucifixion – Little Missenden
• Little Tey, Essex; Passion Cycle, Introduction; Passion Cycle, Little Tey
• Little Wenham, Suffolk; Virgin & Child with three female saints
• Little Witchingham, Norfolk; Passion Cycle, Introduction; Passion Cycle, Little Witchingham
• Lombardic script, in inscription; St Thomas Becket – Hauxton
• Longinus; Medieval Wall Painting:Short Introduction; Passion Cycle, Introduction; Passion Cycle – Crostwight, Gt.Tew, Little Easton, Little Tey, North Cove, Peakirk, Seething; comparison with Seven Deadly Sins – Raunds; Crucifixion – Barnby; Crucifixion – Wisborough Green
• Longthorpe Tower, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Nativity and other scenes; Wheel of the Five Senses & other scenes
• Lucifer; Seven Deadly Sins, Intr.
• Lupton, Canon James, Vicar of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire; Black Bourton – SS Peter & Paul
• Lust; Seven Deadly Sins – Hessett; Seven Deadly Sins, Raunds
• Lutterworth, Leicestershire; Three Living & Three Dead
• Lyke-wake Dirge Seven Works of Mercy, Intr.

M

• ‘M’(for Mary) Monogram; Suicide of Judas – Breamore
• Maestà (see Christ in Majesty)
• Magdalene, Mary; Passion Cycle – Brook (Kent), Passion Cycle – Gt.Tew, Little Tey; Little Witchingham, Peakirk; Deposition – Bardwell; Heydon (as single figure?); with Virgin & Child, SS Catherine and Margaret – Little Wenham
• Magi, at Nativity (see also ‘Adoration of…/Dream of/Journey of ’); Nativity – Corby Glen; Three Magi – Burton Dassett
• Malchus; Passion Cycle, Fairstead; Ickleton; Pickering
• Malleus Maleficarum; Women & Devils, Melbourne; Herod’s Feast – Idsworth
• Mandorla, surrounding Christ; Christ in Majesty – Houghton Conquest
• Mankind, Morality Play of; Warning Against Idle Gossip, Intr.
• Manna in the Wilderness, as typological subject; Genesis Scenes – Introduction; Friskney – Last Supper
• Manus Dei (Hand of God); Adam Delving & Eve spinning – Bledlow; Carved & PaintedRood – Breamore; Allegorical Joust – Claverley
• Margaret of Antioch, St ; Life of St Margaret – Charlwood; St Margaret – Old Weston; Martyrdom of St Margaret – Stoke Dry; Life of St Margaret – Wendens Ambo; St Margaret and the dragon – South Newington; Martyrdom of St Margaret – Duxford; Martyrdom of St Margaret – Ashby St Ledgers; Virgin & Child with three female saints – Little Wenham
• Margaret of Burgundy, sister of Edward IV of England; Seven Works of Mercy, Moulton St Mary
• Marian devotion; Weighing of Souls, Slapton; Nativity, Corby Glen
• ‘Mariolatry’ Weighing of Souls, Slapton
• Marlowe, Christopher, The Jew of Malta, quoted, Suicide of Judas – Breamore
• Marston Magna, Somerset; Murder of Thomas Becket
• Marston Moreteyne, Bedfordshire; Doom
• Martha and Mary, sisters of Lazarus; Raising of Lazarus, Brook (Kent)
• Martin, St; St Martin dividing his cloak – Chalgrave; St Martin dividing his cloak – Wareham
• Martlesham, Suffolk St Christopher
• Marton, Cheshire; Doom
• Masaccio; Trinity & Last Judgement, Houghton-on-the-Hill
• Mass of St Gregory; Mass of St Gregory – Slapton
• Massacre of the Innocents; Infancy & Earlier Life of Christ:Intro; Adoration of the Magi – Black Bourton; Massacre of the Innocents/Flight into Egypt – Croughton; Massacre of the Innocents – Kelmscott
• Matthew 25: 34-46; Seven Works of Mercy, Moulton St Mary
• medieval ship, incised on pillar; Passion Cycle, Flamstead
• Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire; Doom
• Melbourne, Derbyshire; Women & Devils
• Mennas, or Menas, St ?painted at Kempley; Christ in Majesty – Kempley
• mermaid; St Christopher – Oaksey; St Christopher – Slapton
• Michael, St Doom & Weighing of Souls, Introduction; Weighing of Souls – Bartlow; Weighing of Souls – Bishopsbourne; Doom – Broughton (Buckinghamshire), Doom – Wenhaston; Weighing of Souls – Rotherfield; Slapton, South Leigh
• Michelangelo Doom Intr.
• Michaelchurch Escley, Hereford & Worcestershire; Warning to Sabbath – Breakers
• Midwife, holding infant Jesus; Nativity – Wissington
• Midwife, unbelieving; Nativity, Corby Glen
• miniature painting, Flemish Seven Works of Mercy, Moulton St Mary
• Miracle of the 3 Boys in the Barrel (St Nicholas) Wissington
• Miracle of the Cup (St Nicholas), Wissington
• Miracle of the Clay Birds; Miracle of the Clay Birds – Shorthampton
• Miracle of the broken eggs (St Swithun); Corhampton
• ‘Miracle’ Play of St Catherine at Dunstable; St Catherine – Old Weston
• Mocking of Christ; Passion Cycle, Fairstead , Flamstead, Little Witchingham
• Molanus, John (Flemish theologian); Doom, Ickleton
• Molesworth, Northamptonshire; St Christopher
• Moretaine, see Mortayne
• Morris, William (English designer) Expulsion from Paradise – Kelmscott
• Mortayne, Margaret, arms of; Virgin & Child – South Newington
• Morton, Simon, rebellious vicar of Poundstock, Cornwall; Warning to Sabbath Breakers – Poundstock
• Moses, with Ten Commandments Moses & Ten Commandments – Stokesay
• Mother of Mercy, Virgin Mary as; Weighing of Souls – Slapton
• Moulton St Mary; Seven Works of Mercy, Introduction; Seven Works of Mercy – Moulton St Mary
• Mount Sinai, St Catherine’s tomb on; Life of St Catherine – Sporle
• Mystery Plays, English; Passion Cycle, Introduction; Passion Cycle, Ickleton; Doom, Broughton, Weighing of Souls, South Leigh

N

• Nativity; Nativity – Corby Glen; Nativity – Faversham; Nativity – Newton Green; Nativity (Virgin in bed) – Wissington; Nativity/Annunciation to Shepherds – Ashampstead; Nativity scenes – Hardham
• Nether Wallop, Hampshire; Warning to Sabbath Breakers – Nether Wallop
• Newington-next-Sittingbourne, Kent; Doom – Newington
• Newton Green, Suffolk; Annunciation/Visitation/Nativity – Newton Green
• New Testament; Medieval Wall Painting:Short Intr.
• Nicholas, Saint; Two Miracles of St Nicholas – Wissington; Seven Deadly Sins – Little Horwood; St Nicholas & the 3 Boys – Padworth; St Nicholas & the Three boys – Bishopsbourne
• Nicodemus; Passion Cycle – Peakirk
• Nicodemus, apocryphal Gospel of; Miracle of the Clay Birds – Shorthampton
• ‘Noli me Tangere’ (Appearance to Mary Magdalene); Passion Cycle – Great Tew; Passion Cycle – Little Witchingham; Risby
• Norman Conquest; Medieval Wall Painting:Short Intr.
• North Cove, Suffolk; Passion Cycle, Introduction; Passion Cycle – North Cove; Doom, North Cove
• North Stoke, Oxfordshire; Murder of Thomas Becket – North Stoke; Martyrdom of St Stephen; Passion Cycle

O

• Oaksey, Wiltshire; Warning to Sabbath Breakers – Oaksey; St Christopher – Oaksey
• Octopus (or squid); St Christopher – Woodeaton
• Oddington, Gloucestershire; Doom – Oddington
• Office of the Dead; Seven Works of Mercy, Wickhampton
• Osculum infame; Women & Devils, Melbourne
• Old Weston, Northamptonshire; SSt Catherine & Margaret – Old Weston; St John the Baptist – Old
       Weston; St Swithun – Old Weston
• Order of the Garter; Visitation – Salisbury (St Thomas)
• Origen, said to have corresponded with St Barbara; St Barbara – Hessett; and the Crucifixion of St Peter; Martyrdom of St Peter – Chacombe
• Our Lady of Pity (see Pietà)
• Ox, in Nativity; Nativity, Corby Glen; Nativity – Faversham; Nativity – Hardham

P

• Padbury, Buckinghamshire; Seven Deadly Sins, Intr.; Wolf finding St Edmund's head
• Padworth, Buckinghamshire St Nicholas & the Three Boys in the Barrel
• painted screen; St Christopher, Edingthorpe
• Papal Tiara; Doom, Gt.Harrowden
• Parson Woodforde, rector of Weston Longville; St John the Evangelist, Weston Longville
• Passion Cycle:
  • Passion Cycle, Introduction
  • Passion Cycle, Amberley
  • Passion Cycle, Belchamp Walter
  • Passion Cycle, Brook (Kent)
  • Crostwight
  • Fairstead
  • Flamstead
  • Gussage St Andrew
  • Gt.Tew
  • Ickleton
  • Little Easton
  • Little Tey
  • Little Witchingham
  • North Cove
  • Peakirk
  • Pickering
  • Seething
  • South Newington
  • West Chiltington
  • Wissington
• pastimes, medieval, proscribed on Sabbath; Warning to Sabbath Breakers – Ampney St Mary
• Paston; St Christopher – Paston; Three Living & Three Dead
• Paston Letters; St Christopher – Paston
• Patrologia Latina; Seven Deadly Sins, Intr.
• Paul, St ; Black Bourton – SS Peter & Paul; Beckley – Doom; Selling, SS Peter & Paul Coombes, in Traditio Legis
• peacock’s eye decoration; St Christopher, Shorwell, Raunds, Fritton
• Peakirk, Northamptonshire; Passion Cycle, Introduction; Peakirk; Warning Against Idle Gossip; Three Living & Three Dead
• Pelican in its Piety, the The Pelican in its Piety – Belchamp Walter
• Penitent Thief; Crucifixion, Wisborough Green
• Pericles (Shakespeare); St Christopher, Shorwell
• Peter, Apostle & Saint:
  • Passion Cycle – Brook (Kent)
  • Crostwight
  • Fairstead
  • Flamstead
  • Ickleton
  • Little Tey
  • Doom, Introduction
  • Doom – Bacton
  • Doom – Beckley
  • Doom – Broughton (Buckinghamshire)
  • Doom – Broughton (Cambridgeshire)
  • Doom, Great Harrowden
  • Doom – Marston Moreteyne
  • Doom – Sth. Leigh
  • Doom – Wenhaston
  • Black Bourton – SS Peter & Paul
  • Friskney, Last Supper
  • Selling, SSt Peter & Paul
  • Martyrdom of
  • Chacombe
  • Coombes, in Traditio Legis
• Peterborough, manuscript made at; Passion Cycle, Peakirk
• Philetus son of magician Hermogenes, converted by St James the Great; Life of St James – Stoke Orchard
• Pickering, N Yorkshire; Seven Works of Mercy; Martyrdom of St Edmund; Life of St Catherine; St Christopher; Passion Cycle; Herod's Feast, with Salome & St John the Baptist; Burial, Assumption & Coronation of the Virgin
• Piers Plowman; Seven Deadly Sins, Intr.; Seven Deadly Sins, Raunds
• Pietà (Our Lady of Pity); Hornton
• Pig, emblem of St Antony; St Antony & Pig, Barton
• Pilate, Pontius; Passion Cycle – Brook (Kent); Fairstead, Flamstead, Little Easton; North Stoke;
• pilgrim, in Seven Works of Mercy; Seven Works of Mercy, Moulton St Mary; St James as; Wisborough Green
• pilgrimage sites in the Middle Ages, Bradwell Abbey – Annunciation
• Pillar of the Scourging, as Intrument of Passion; Doom Intr.; Houghton Conquest – Christ in Majesty
• Pinvin, Worcestershire; Annunciation/Visitation/Adoration of the Magi/Crucifixion/Resurrection/Ascension/St Roch
• Poisoned chalice, attribute of St John the Evangelist; St John the Evangelist – Weston Longville
• Pole, Michael de la, founder of Cawston church; Virgin Enthroned – Cawston
• Potter Heigham, Norfolk; Seven Works of Mercy
• Poundstock, Cornwall; Warning to Sabbath Breakers
• Prayer Book Rebellion; see ‘West Country Prayer Book Rebellion’
• Presentation in the Temple; Kelmscott – Presentation in the Temple; Faversham – Presentation in the Temple
• Prick of Conscience, window at All Saints, York; Doom Intr.
• Pride; Seven Deadly Sins, Introduction; Seven Deadly Sins – Alveley; Seven Deadly Sins – Hessett; Seven Deadly Sins, Raunds
• Prudentius (4th century Latin Christian poet); Allegorical Joust – Claverley
• Psalter of Rober de Lisle; paintings similar to Flight into Egypt, Croughton
• Pseudo-Abdias, early collection of saints’s lives, possible source for Life of St James; Life of St James – Stoke Orchard
• Psychomachia (of Prudentius); Allegorical Joust – Claverley; scheme at Copford once possibly part of; David overcoming Lion – Copford; Seven Deadly Sins – Crostwight
• Purgatory; Allegory of Souls – Swanbourne
• Purton; Death (Dormition) of the Virgin – Purton

Q

• Queen Mary’s Psalter, similarities to paintings at Charlwood noted; Life of St Margaret – Charlwood
• Queen of Heaven, Virgin Mary as; Doom – Gt.Harrowden; Weighing of Souls, South Leigh; Adoration of the Magi – Black Bourton; Adoration of the Magi – Faversham; Nativity – Corby Glen
• Quem quaeritis trope (medieval liturgy & drama), see Three Marys at the sepulchre;
• Quiriacus, saint, see Cyriacus

R

• rainbow, Christ seated on; Doom, Bradfield; Broughton (Cambridgeshire); Great Harrowden; Ickleton; North Cove; Rotherfield; Wenhaston; West Somerton
• Ranworth, Norfolk, painted screen at; Weighing of Souls, South Leigh
• Raunds, Northamptonshire; St Christopher, Introduction; St Christopher – Raunds; Seven Deadly Sins – Raunds; Three Living & Three Dead – Raunds,Outline of Rood (picture)
• Receiving the Stranger:
  • Seven Works of Mercy, Introduction
  • Seven Works of Mercy, Barnby
  • Seven Works of Mercy, Edingthorpe
  • Seven Works of Mercy, Hoxne
  • Seven Works, Linkinhorne
  • Seven Works of Mercy, Moulton St Mary
  • Seven Works of Mercy, Potter Heigham
  • Seven Works of Mercy, Pickering
  • Seven Works, Trotton
  • Seven Works, Wickhampton
• Redundant Churches Fund; Seven Works of Mercy, Introduction; Seven Works of Mercy – Moulton St Mary
• Reformation, English; Medieval Wall Painting:Short Intr.; Doom – Stoke-by-Clare; Doom, Wenhaston; Sacrifice of Isaac, Launcells; Moses, with Commandments, Stokesay
• Reginald of Durham, hagiologist; Scenes from the Life of St Cuthber – Pittington
• René II, King of Anjou; Three Living & Three Dead, Intr.
• Repainting, post-Medieval examples of; David overcoming the Lion – Copford
• Repentant Thief; Passion Cycle, Crostwight
• Reprobus; St Christopher, ‘A Printer’s Preface’
• Resurrection; Passion Cycle, Introduction; Passion Cycle, Crostwight, Flamstead, Gt.Tew, Little Easton, Little Witchingham; Pickering; Seething; South Newington; Pinvin
• Revelation; Doom, Intr.
• Richard of Chichester, St; Black Bourton – SS Peter & Paul; Black Bourton – Coronation of the Virgin
• Richard Rolle of Hampole; Doom Intr.; Expulsion from Paradise, Broughton, Cambridgeshire
• Risby, Suffolk Appearance to Mary Magdalene, Risby
• Road to Calvary; Amberley; Brook; Croughton; Fairstead; Ford; Great Tew; Gussage St Andrew; Ickleton; Little Easton; North Cove; Peakirk; Pickering; South Newington; West Chiltington
• Roch, St; St Roch & other scenes – Pinvin
• Roman brick; Passion Cycle, Fairstead
• Rood, once found in all churches; Detached Crucifixion Contents Page; Doom – Wenhaston
• Rood, carved & painted (in porch); Breamore
• Rosary; St Christopher – Layer Marney; Warning against Idle Gossip – Little Melton; Virgin intervening at the Judgement – Lathbury; Weighing of Souls – Slapton; Weighing of Souls – South Leigh
• Rotherfield, E Sussex; Doom Introduction; Doom – Rotherfield; Weighing of Souls – Rotherfield;Incredulity of Thomas – Rotherfield
• Royal Arms, of George III, superimposed on Doom; Beckley – Doom