Medieval Doom Painting - St Mary - Earl Stonham, Suffolk
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N 52° 11.252 E 001° 04.928
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A medieval 'Doom' painting on the chancel arch in St Mary's church, Earl Stonham.
Waymark Code: WM12Q7K
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/01/2020
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"Above the chancel arch are the remains of a doom painting. It shows the Last Judgement, with souls being measured, and then sent south to Hell or north to Heaven. The middle part of the painting is rather empty, suggesting that the rood went up this high. It would have been lit by the small window near the roof of the north transept.
On the west wall of the south transept is a painting, a scene from St George and the Dragon. It is rather cut off by the organ, making it difficult to photograph. Opposite, until the 1930s, it was still possible to discern what appeared to be the martyrdom of the disgraced St Thomas of Canterbury. This is a rare subject in East Anglia, being found at only a couple of churches. Another wall painting, in the south transept, showed the nativity, and was probably part of a sequence like that at North Cove or Wissington. It has been whitewashed again, but a modern transcript of an 1870s copy is on display."
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