Weston Turville - St. Mary's - Wall painting fragment

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Weston Turville - St. Mary's - Wall painting fragment

Image: © Rob Farrow Taken: 13 Jul 2014

There are two fragments of C13th wall painting in the spandrels of arcade along the southern wall of the nave of St Mary's, Weston Turville. They are thought to date from c.1250 This from the records of Buckinghamshire (E.C.Rouse, 1962) "... the most interesting discoveries were of fragments of wall painting made during the summer of 1962 ... they are exceptionally bold in design and rich in colouring ... and are very similar to the work in Bledlow in like position" The fragment shown in this photograph is the more colourful of the two examples.

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51.784684
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-0.755827