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A Buried Past

08/November/2007 Filed in: Jottings
The south aisle of St Augustine's church is currently being replastered. Stripping way the old plaster revealed a blocked up window west of the entrance to the Eyston chapel. In this photo you can see traces of the original wall painting, which is probably fifteenth century. On Friday it will be covered up again, so here is a precious glimpse of something not seen for centuries, and not likely to be seen again for a few centuries more. Only a small detail, and nothing to get an art historian excited, but nice to have all the same. Was the painter a village craftsman whose body lies in the graveyard outide, or was he a travelling craftsman from further afield. Who knows? The anonymous nature of so much of our heritage is something that appeals to me.