Feast of St Matthew
Medieval History

Feast of St Matthew



Norbury, Derbyshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.

St Mary and St Barlock's church, Norbury. St Matthew with his axe and his quill pot, part of an apostles creed paid for by Nicholas Fitzherbert and dating from the 1470s.





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Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Woodeaton, Oxfordshire has a super little medieval church with loads of texture. The walls have the crumbling remains of layer after layer of wallpaintings, including loads of red ochre lining...

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Bag Enderby, Lincolnshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.The atmospheric littlee church in the hamlet of Bag Enderby in the Lincolnshire wolds is a Perpendicular building built from beginning to end in one campaign. A simple brass inscription set...



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