I’m rather tired tonight, and we have an early morning tomorrow, so a brief post tonight!<\/p>\n

Today we visited three parish churches in Yorkshire to look at wall paintings. Apparently Britain is really not that different from the Midwest, because we got substantially delayed on our way to the first church by road construction, and also got a little bit lost in the country trying to find our way back from the construction. Getting lost in the country here is a more difficult challenge, when one is in a large van on narrow roads, but our driver (a professor of prehistoric history at York) did a valiant job.<\/p>\n

Churches, both cathedrals and parish churches, would have been covered in paintings in the Middle Ages, making them appear very different to us today than they would have to medieval Christians. These paintings have almost entirely disappeared, some due to the Reformers, who plastered over them, and some undoubtedly to the ravages of time. When a great deal of church restoration\/renovation took place in the nineteenth century, some of these paintings were uncovered, but the early efforts to preserve them (coating them with wax, for example) actually made things worse. So the few paintings we have left are precious.<\/p>\n

Church #1: Wensley (yes, home of Wensleydale cheese!). Only a few fragments remain on the wall and on the pillars. Also on a pillar, the shape of a christening cross, which was used in the dedication of the church. More interesting to me, however, were the thirteenth-century poor box (check out the awesome lock), and the fifteenth-century figures carved on the ends of pews. The church in Wensley is no longer used by a congregation, and it is a bit empty and run down. It is sad to be in a church that has survived for at least seven hundred years and now sits empty.<\/p>\n

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St George!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The 1850s sketch–you can see how much has been added!<\/p><\/div>\n

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St Edmund, king and martyr (not to be confused with St Sebastian–the crown is how you can tell them apart)<\/p><\/div>\n

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You can see how un-medieval the faces are!<\/p><\/div>\n

Church #3: Rillington. Very\u00a0<\/i>small bit of wall painting remains. I really don’t know how art historians can identify narratives from these bits of image, but these are depictions from the life of St John of Beverley, a local saint.<\/p>\n

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