Wall paintings from All Saints Church, Claverley, Shropshire, c.1200

[Druzhina]

English knights circa 1200AD
There are wall paintings of knights in All Saints Church, Claverley, Shropshire, featuring face-mask visors.
With notes by David Nicolle. Knights being unhorsed. Some of the wall-painting is damaged.

Does anyone have any more photos of these?

MIRROR SITE
Wall paintings from All Saints Church, Claverley, Shropshire, England, c.1200

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

[Techno]

Time has not been too kind to the paint, has it ?
Good find tho' D.

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sounds like a job for 'Matt of Munslow'! Or a long drive next time I go home...

[Matt J]

no probs, work permitting I'll try and nip out and get some next week in my lunch break. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Fantastic!

[Druzhina]

no probs, work permitting I'll try and nip out and get some next week in my lunch break. 

That would be excellent.

Druzhina
12th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Mark from Timecast is also local and said he would go looking too!

[WeeWars]

You want to get in touch with the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments:

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/catalogue.aspx?gid=204

and get them to dig out their earliest photographic record of the paintings.

Cheers, Michael

[Matt J]

Managed to find 5 mins today and taken some pics. Will upload later.

Matt

[Matt J]

from left to right











couple of close ups

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Brilliant Matt!

[Techno]

Good on you, Matt !
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Not often we can have a forum member go out and check D's work!
Just proves how good he is!

[Druzhina]

Thanks Matt, they will be very useful.
Is the figure on the far left or that on the far right worth photographing?

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

[Matt J]

It's the far right. Yes I see what you mean you can just see the lance sticking out (5th photo down). I didn't even see the lance and start of the figure with the naked eye it looked to be damaged/plastered over, its a partial image.
The pics you have which say the right side is more the centre right.

If you want me to mess with any of the photos (zoom in at any point, increase contrast etc) let me know, the original image files are pretty big.

Matt