Medieval History
Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.
- A Mighty Norman Tower
Fingest, Buckinghamshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum (Allan Barton).Fingest is a tiny village in the Chilterns in south Buckinghamshire. The village is dominated by the mighty Norman western tower of St Bartholomew's church. In fact the tower...
- Layer Upon Layer Of ...
East Shefford, Berkshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.medieval wallpaintings. The tiny church of East Shefford in Berkshire, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust has some fascinating wallpaintings in the nave. The east wall of the...
- A Small Remnant Of Former Glories.
Combe, Oxfordshire, wallpaintings, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Where medieval wallpaintings do survive they are often far from complete. All that survives of this fifteenth century Annunciation at Combe in Oxfordshire is a mere fragment of a once...
- Palimpsest Wallpaintings
Combe, Oxfordshire, wallpaintings, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.A palimpsest is a work or art or manuscript that has been painted on on or written on, scraped off, and used again. The word palimpsest comes through Latin from the Greek words ?????...
- The Palm Sunday Cross
Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Quite a number of medieval stone crosses survive in our churchyards, when I say survive, very few are as complete as the fifteenth century example at Ampney Crucis in Gloucestershire which...
Medieval History
Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire
Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.
The tiny church of St Michael, Duntisbourne Rouse is on a dramatic site on the hillside overlooking the valley of the river Dunt in the Cotswolds. The nave is essentially Saxon (11th century) and to this were added a chancel in the twelfth century, with a crypt below, and the small Perpendicular tower in the fifteenth century.
The interior of the chancel received a makeover in the thirteenth century and retains a lot of its wallpaintings from that time.
The crypt is an atmospheric space and it too had wallpaintings, one can be seen to the left of the window.
Here is a detail of that wallpainting, the figure of a male saints. Sadly it's too far gone to be identified. When new this must have been a vibrant and colourful space.
- A Mighty Norman Tower
Fingest, Buckinghamshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum (Allan Barton).Fingest is a tiny village in the Chilterns in south Buckinghamshire. The village is dominated by the mighty Norman western tower of St Bartholomew's church. In fact the tower...
- Layer Upon Layer Of ...
East Shefford, Berkshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.medieval wallpaintings. The tiny church of East Shefford in Berkshire, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust has some fascinating wallpaintings in the nave. The east wall of the...
- A Small Remnant Of Former Glories.
Combe, Oxfordshire, wallpaintings, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Where medieval wallpaintings do survive they are often far from complete. All that survives of this fifteenth century Annunciation at Combe in Oxfordshire is a mere fragment of a once...
- Palimpsest Wallpaintings
Combe, Oxfordshire, wallpaintings, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.A palimpsest is a work or art or manuscript that has been painted on on or written on, scraped off, and used again. The word palimpsest comes through Latin from the Greek words ?????...
- The Palm Sunday Cross
Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.Quite a number of medieval stone crosses survive in our churchyards, when I say survive, very few are as complete as the fifteenth century example at Ampney Crucis in Gloucestershire which...